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Title Hollywood action films and spatial theory / Nick Jones
Published New York : Routledge, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (x, 177 pages)
Series Routledge advances in film studies ; 34
Routledge advances in film studies ; 34.
Contents 1. Architecture : appropriating iconic forms -- 2. Space : surviving the non-places of globalisation -- 3. Place : meaning through movement -- 4. Paraspaces : spatial displacement and consumerism -- 5. Cyberspace : embodying digital networks
Summary This book applies the discourse of the so-called 'spatial turn'to popular contemporary cinema, in particular the action sequences of twenty-first century Hollywood productions. Tackling a variety of spatial imaginations (contemporary iconic architecture; globalisation and non-places; phenomenological knowledge of place; consumerist spaces of commodity purchase; cyberspace), the diverse case studies not only detail the range of ways in which action sequences represent the challenge of surviving and acting in contemporary space, but also reveal the consistent qualities of spatial appropriation and spatial manipulation that define the form. Jones argues that action sequences dramatise the restrictions and possibilities of space, offering examples of radical spatial praxis through their depictions of spatial engagement, struggle and eventual transcendence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 6, 2015)
Subject Action and adventure films -- United States -- History and criticism
Action and adventure films -- History and criticism
Space and time in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Action and adventure films
Space and time in motion pictures
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Jones, Nick, 1984- editor.
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