{"product_id":"action-cinema-since-2000-9781839022784","title":"Action Cinema Since 2000","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAction Cinema Since 2000\u003c\/i\u003e addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors examine a broad range of content, from blockbusters to smaller independent films, originating from China, Korea, India, France, the USA, and Mexico. Ranging from \u003ci\u003eJSA: Joint Security Area (Gondonggeonygbi guyeok) (2000)\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003ePolite Society\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), they consider the changing modes of action cinema, with streaming assuming global importance and an ever-increasing number of generic blends. They consider under-explored areas of action film, particularly how race, ethnicity, gender, and age figure in narratives and through image and soundtracks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Overall, the book demonstrates how 21st century action cinema engages with and reflects geopolitical, creative, and industrial developments. Contributors argue that it continues to offer fantasies of empowerment and mobility that say much about how power is understood in diverse contexts today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Holmlund \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emerita of Cinema Studies, Women's Studies and French at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA. She has longstanding research interests in action film, stardom, and performance. Her books include \u003ci\u003eFemale Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) and American Cinema of the 1990s (2208). She is editor of \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe Ultimate Stallone Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Purse\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Film at the University of Reading, UK. She is a leading action and digital effects scholar with interests in the politics of representation and the aesthetics of contemporary digital cinema technologies. Her books include \u003ci\u003eContemporary Action Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), and \u003ci\u003eDigital Imaging in Popular Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (2013). She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eDisappearing War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cinema and Erasure in the Post-9\/11 World\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eYvonne Tasker\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. She has written extensively on popular cinema and is author of \u003ci\u003eSpectacular Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), \u003ci\u003eWorking Girls\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), and \u003ci\u003eThe Hollywood Action and Adventure Film\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). She is editor of \u003ci\u003eAction and Adventure Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), and co-editor of\u003ci\u003e Interrogating Postfeminism \u003c\/i\u003e(2007).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"British Film Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50928957948178,"sku":"9781839022784","price":114.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_74be8fbb-e000-4721-b43a-64602eff12fa.jpg?v=1739024776","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/action-cinema-since-2000-9781839022784","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}