Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back - Brossura

O'Brien, Harvey

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0231163312 ISBN 13: 9780231163316

Casa editrice: Wallflower Pr, 2012

Riassunto

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 likeBullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) through epoch-defining films likeRambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Die Hard (1988) to revisions, reboots, and renewals in films likeKill 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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L'autore

Dr. Harvey O'Brien is a lecturer in Film Studies at University College Dublin. He has published on topics including Irish Studies, history and the media, horror, science fiction, and documentary film. He is the author of The Real Ireland:The Evolution of Ireland in Documentary Film (2004) and co-editor of Keeping it Real: Irish Film and Television (2004).

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Book by OBrien Harvey

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Wallflower Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0231163312
• ISBN 13: 9780231163316
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 132