Gender and Action Films 1980-2000
Title | Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Gerrard |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2022-11-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 180117508X |
Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 offers insights into the intertwined concepts of gender and action, and how their portrayal developed in the Action Movie genre during the final two decades of the twentieth century. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies.
Gender and Action Films
Title | Gender and Action Films PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Gerrard |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2022-11-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1801175144 |
Focusing on a less acknowledged period in Action Cinema history, Gender and Action Films prioritises female led action movies and champion a more meaningful interaction and representation between the Action genre and contemporary issues of race, sexuality, and gender.
Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond
Title | Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Gerrard |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2022-11-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1801175209 |
Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond: Transformations looks at Action Cinema from the old to the new, offering an exciting interrogation of the portrayal of gender in the new millennia. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies.
Gender and Action Films 1980-2000
Title | Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Gerrard |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2022-11-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1801175063 |
Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 offers insights into the intertwined concepts of gender and action, and how their portrayal developed in the Action Movie genre during the final two decades of the twentieth century. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies.
Spectacular Bodies
Title | Spectacular Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Yvonne Tasker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2012-10-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 113487300X |
While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered, sexual and racial identities which took place during the 1980s, but reflects the influences of other media such as the new video culture. Her detailed discussion of the homoeroticism surrounding the muscleman hero, the symbolic centrality of blackness within the crime narrative, and the changing status of women within the genre, addresses the constitution of these identities through the shifting categories of gender, class, race, sex, sexuality and nation. Spectacular Bodies also examines the ambivalence of supposedly secure categories of popular cinema, questioning the existing terms of film criticism in this area and addressing the complex pleasures of this neglected form.
Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond
Title | Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Gerrard |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2022-11-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1801175187 |
Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond: Transformations looks at Action Cinema from the old to the new, offering an exciting interrogation of the portrayal of gender in the new millennia. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies.
Feminism at the Movies
Title | Feminism at the Movies PDF eBook |
Author | Hilary Radner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2012-03-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136519122 |
Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today’s changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary films across a range of genres, such as chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, horror, action adventure, indie flicks, and women lawyer films. Contributors explore issues of femininity as well as masculinity, reflecting on the interface of popular cinema with gendered realities and feminist ideas. Topics include the gendered political economy of cinema, the female director as auteur, postfeminist fatherhood, consumer culture, depictions of professional women, transgender, sexuality, gendered violence, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities. The volume contains essays by following contributors: Taunya Lovell Banks, Heather Brook, Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Michael DeAngelis, Barry Keith Grant, Kelly Kessler, Hannah Hamad, Christina Lane (with Nicole Richter), JaneMaree Maher, David Hansen-Miller (with Rosalind Gill), Gary Needham, Sarah Projansky, Hilary Radner, Rob Schaap, Yael D Sherman, Michele Shreiber, Janet Staiger, Peter Stapleton, Rebecca Stringer, Yvonne Tasker, and Ewa Ziarek.