The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film / New Approaches to Film Genre (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film presents a
comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes,
and critical approaches to the action and adventure genre in
American cinema.
* Draws on a wide range of examples, spanning the...
comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes,
and critical approaches to the action and adventure genre in
American cinema.
* Draws on a wide range of examples, spanning the...
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The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film presents a
comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes,
and critical approaches to the action and adventure genre in
American cinema.
* Draws on a wide range of examples, spanning the silent
spectacles of early cinema to the iconic superheroes of
21st-century action films
* Features case studies revealing the genre's diverse roots
- from westerns and war films, to crime and espionage
movies
* Explores a rich variety of aesthetic and thematic concerns that
have come to define the genre, touching on themes such as the
outsider hero, violence and redemption, and adventure as escape
from the mundane
* Integrates discussion of gender, race, ethnicity, and
nationality alongside genre history
* Provides a timely and richly revealing portrait of a powerful
cinematic genre that has increasingly come to dominate the American
cinematic landscape
comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes,
and critical approaches to the action and adventure genre in
American cinema.
* Draws on a wide range of examples, spanning the silent
spectacles of early cinema to the iconic superheroes of
21st-century action films
* Features case studies revealing the genre's diverse roots
- from westerns and war films, to crime and espionage
movies
* Explores a rich variety of aesthetic and thematic concerns that
have come to define the genre, touching on themes such as the
outsider hero, violence and redemption, and adventure as escape
from the mundane
* Integrates discussion of gender, race, ethnicity, and
nationality alongside genre history
* Provides a timely and richly revealing portrait of a powerful
cinematic genre that has increasingly come to dominate the American
cinematic landscape
Autoren-Porträt von Yvonne Tasker
Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Film and Media at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (1993) and Soldiers' Stories: Military Women in Cinema and Television Since WWII (2011), and editor of Action and Adventure Cinema (2004).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Yvonne Tasker
- 2015, 1. Auflage, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 111901493X
- ISBN-13: 9781119014935
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2015
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