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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Emerita Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee, USA) , Professor Lisa Purse (University of Reading, UK) , Yvonne Tasker (University of Leeds, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: BFI Publishing ISBN: 9781839022777ISBN 10: 1839022779 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 13 June 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsThis book emphatically confirms the continuing significance of action cinema, particularly as a site of cross-cultural exchange. In its capacious breadth and its intellectual generosity, it captures and astonishing range of issues, offering transnational perspectives on this evolving genre. -- Sharon Willis, University of Rochester, USA Action Cinema Since 2000 offers a series of solid intellectual punches that together make a convincing case for considering action cinema as a dominant mode of popular film. Comprehensive and compelling, it examines the aesthetics of action in a global context and is certain to be an indispensable volume for anyone interested in contemporary filmmaking. -- Barry Keith Grant, Brock University, Canada Author InformationChris Holmlund is Professor Emerita of Cinema Studies, Women’s Studies and French at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA. She has longstanding research interests in action film, stardom, and performance. Her books include Female Trouble (2017) and American Cinema of the 1990s (2208). She is editor of The Ultimate Stallone Reader (2014). Lisa Purse is Professor of Film at the University of Reading, UK. She is a leading action and digital effects scholar with interests in the politics of representation and the aesthetics of contemporary digital cinema technologies. Her books include Contemporary Action Cinema (2011), and Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema (2013). She is co-editor of Disappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9/11 World (2017). Yvonne Tasker is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. She has written extensively on popular cinema and is author of Spectacular Bodies (1993), Working Girls (1998), and The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film (2015). She is editor of Action and Adventure Cinema (2004), and co-editor of Interrogating Postfeminism (2007). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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