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Drone Age Cinema - Action Film and Sensory Assault (Hardcover)
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Drone Age Cinema - Action Film and Sensory Assault (Hardcover)
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At a time when technological advances are transforming cultures and
supporting new automated military operations, action films engage
the senses and, in doing so, allow viewers to embody combat roles.
This book argues that through film the viewer adapts to an ecology
of fear, one that reflects global panic at the near-constant threat
of conflict and violence. Often overwhelming in its audiovisual
assault, action cinema attempts to overpower our bodies with its
own through force and intensity. In this book, Steen Ledet
Christiansen identifies five aspects central to how action films
produce such physical movements and responses through vectors,
droning, kinetics, telesomatics and volatility and in so doing
unveils new modes of perception that acclimatise us for warfare.
Drawing on theories from film-philosophy and a consideration of the
aesthetics and phenomenology of war, this is an innovative study of
the evolving action movie and its role in the targeted address of
battle. Chapters investigate new modes of cinematic experience
through in-depth case studies of Iron Man, Avatar and the Jason
Bourne trilogy, through to The Hurt Locker and Mad Max: Fury Road.
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