Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back (Short Cuts) - Softcover

O'Brien, Harvey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231163312 ISBN 13: 9780231163316

Verlag: Wallflower Press, 2012

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Book by OBrien Harvey

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This smart, short introduction to the action film tackles the history, aesthetics and politics of an American genre that remains both extraordinarily visible and yet unexplored. It provides readers with a deftly argued account of the genre's distinctive aesthetic and its complex involvement in cultural themes of trauma, violence, and redemption. -- Yvonne Tasker, University of East Anglia A good source for better understanding action cinema, its evolution, and connection with the real world. Film Matters

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Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back is a study of action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre with reference to its relatively short history. It moves from seminal classics like Bullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) through epoch-defining films like Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Die Hard (1988) to revisions, reboots, and renewals in films like Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003), Taken (2008), and The Expendables (2010). The action genre is a fusion of form and content: a cinema of action about action. It is a cinema of the will, configured as a decisive reaction to untenable circumstances. Action heroes take up arms against the sea of troubles that beset them, safe in the knowledge that if they don't do it, nobody will. Though this makes the action movie profoundly disturbing as an embodiment of moral ideology, its enduring appeal proves the appetite for assurance remains undiminished, even in the wake of 9/11.

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• Verlag: Wallflower Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0231163312
• ISBN 13: 9780231163316
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160