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The Action and Adventure Cinema
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The Action and Adventure Cinema Hardcover - 2004

by Yvonne Tasker (Editor)

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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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  • Title The Action and Adventure Cinema
  • Author Yvonne Tasker (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2004-08-26
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780415235068 / 0415235065
  • Weight 2.15 lbs (0.98 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.86 x 6.9 x 0.95 in (25.04 x 17.53 x 2.41 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Action and adventure films - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004001612
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

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