Action/Spectacle Cinema: A Sight and Sound Reader

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Often dismissed as 'High Concept' or 'popcorn', movies, this most popular of contemporary genres can and should, this book asserts, be taken seriously on its own terms. In doing so, questions of aesthetics are foregrounded and evaluative criteria are explored. The volume investigates relations between contemporary action cinema and television, cartoons, comics, special effects and Theme Parks as well as the connection between related types of cinema such as neo-noir and the serial killer film.

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"Funky and alive . . . subversive . . . a top read."--"Cinema Papers

Author Bio

Jose Arroyo is lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Warwick and has written on Spanish and Canadian Cinema. Contributors are drawn from the industry, academia and journalism and include Martin Barker, Manohla Dargis, Richard Dyer, Larry Gross, J. Hoberman, Nick James, B. Ruby Rich, Jonathan Romney, Yvonne Tasker, Amy Taubin and others.