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Action and adventure cinema...
Addressing areas such as genre, film history and style, action and spectacle, stars and bodies, action auteurs and the film industry, the reader covers both Hollywood and also European and Asian action cinema
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monografia Rebiun19127509 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun19127509 m o d cr cnu|||unuuu 050124s2004 enka ob 001 0 eng d 0203645154 9780203645154 UPVA 997910974703706 UAM 991008077352804211 CBUC 991001007021206712 CBUC 991010897924206709 UPCT u437079 NT eng pn NT OCLCQ YDXCP OCLCQ OCLCG OCLCQ OCLCO EBLCP MHW MT4IT UX0 QE2 IDEBK E7B HS0 OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCQ TYFRS OCLCO OCLCQ MERUC OCLCO OCLCQ PIFBR OTZ UNAV 791.43/655 22 Action and adventure cinema edited by Yvonne Tasker London New York Routledge 2004 London New York London New York Routledge xv, 414 p. il xv, 414 p. EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice 'Trauma thrills' : notes on early action cinema / Jennifer M. Bean -- The 'culture war' of sensational melodrama, 1910-14 / Richard Abel -- 'Child of commerce! Bastard of art!' : early film melodrama / Ben Singer -- Action-adventure as Hollywood genre / Steve Neale -- Dwight Macdonald and the historical epic / Mark Jancovich -- 'Get ready for rush hour' : the chronotype in action / Martin Flanagan -- The collapse of reality and illusion in The matrix / Aylish Wood -- Guns and gas : investigating the 1970s car chase film / Tico Romao -- Saving Private Ryan's 'special affect' / Michael Hammond --Ready for action : G.I. Jane, Demi Moore's body and the female combat movie / Linda Ruth Williams -- Más macha : the new Latina action hero / Mary Beltrán -- Beauty in motion : gender, spectacle and action babe cinema / Marc O'Day -- Breakdown : white masculinity, class, and US action-adventure films / Susan Jeffords -- Maximus melodramaticus : masculinity, masochism and white male paranoia in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Martin Fradley -- The family in action / Yvonne Tasker -- The Hong Kong/Hollywood connection : stardom and spectacle in transnational action cinema / Leon Hunt -- Europeans in action! / Christine Holmlund -- Greek war film as melodrama : women, female stars, and the nation as victim / Lydia Papadimitriou -- Spaghetti western, genre criticism and national cinema : re-defining the frame of reference / Dimitris Eleftheriotis -- Genre and violence in the work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah / Stephen Prince -- The dirty dozen : the contradictory nature of screen violence / Tony Williams -- 'It's aimed at kids -- the kid in everybody' : George Lucas, Star wars and children's entertainment / Peter Krämer -- Man's favourite sport? The action films of Kathryn Bigelow / Barry Keith Grant -- 'They call me "action woman" ' : the marketing of Mimi Leder as a new concept in the high concept 'action' film / Rachel Williams Addressing areas such as genre, film history and style, action and spectacle, stars and bodies, action auteurs and the film industry, the reader covers both Hollywood and also European and Asian action cinema Forma de acceso: World Wide Web Tasker, Yvonne 1964-)