This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the
silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of
aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as
one of the leading commercial genres of the New Hollywood cinema,
generating extensive debate in the process.
Contributors consider how action might best be defined, how it has
developed historically, and how it works formally. The critical
reception and standing of action and adventure cinema is considered
in relation to questions of national culture, violence and the
'art' of cinema.
Themes explored include genre and definitions; early action,
sensation and melodrama; authorship and action; national and
transnational action-adventure traditions; action aesthetics;
spectacle and narrative; stars and bodies; class; gender; race and
ethnicity.
Attempting to evaluate the significance of this type of
filmmaking for both popular cinema and film studies, the book
underlines the central place of action and adventure within film
history.
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