1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBSOBE00022803

Autore

Callaghan, Dympna

Titolo

Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy : a Study of King Lear, Othello, the Duchess of Malfi and the White Devil / Dympna Callaghan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London [etc.] : Harvester Wheatsheaf, c1989

Descrizione fisica

187 p. ; 23 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910162792903321

Autore

Christiansen Steen Ledet

Titolo

Drone age cinema : action film and sensory assault / / Steen Ledet Christiansen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2016

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019

ISBN

1-350-98615-1

1-78672-076-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 211 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations

Collana

International library of the moving image ; ; 38

Disciplina

791.43/6582

Soggetti

Action and adventure films

Action and adventure films - History and criticism

Technology in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

War of the senses -- Vectors and the transfer of affect -- Kinetics and the force of movement -- Volatility and flexible bodies -- Corporeal projections and drone bodies -- Droning and audiovisual stun mode --



Cinematic war machines.

Sommario/riassunto

"At a time when technological advances are transforming cultures and supporting new automated military operations, action films engage the senses and, in doing so, allow viewers to embody combat roles. This book argues that through film the viewer adapts to an ecology of fear, one that reflects global panic at the near-constant threat of conflict and violence. Often overwhelming in its audiovisual assault, action cinema attempts to overpower our bodies with its own through force and intensity. In this book, Steen Ledet Christiansen identifies five aspects central to how action films produce such physical movements and responses through vectors, droning, kinetics, telesomatics and volatility and in so doing unveils new modes of perception that acclimatise us for warfare. Drawing on theories from film-philosophy and a consideration of the aesthetics and phenomenology of war, this is an innovative study of the evolving action movie and its role in the targeted address of battle. Chapters investigate new modes of cinematic experience through in-depth case studies of Iron Man, Avatar and the Jason Bourne trilogy, through to The Hurt Locker and Mad Max: Fury Road." -- Publisher's description.