Drone age cinema : action film and sensory assault / / Steen Ledet Christiansen
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| Autore: |
Christiansen Steen Ledet
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| Titolo: |
Drone age cinema : action film and sensory assault / / Steen Ledet Christiansen
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| Pubblicazione: | London, England : , : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, , 2016 |
| London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2019 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 211 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/6582 |
| Soggetto topico: | Action and adventure films |
| Action and adventure films - History and criticism | |
| Technology in motion pictures | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Drone age cinema |
| ISBN: | 1-350-98615-1 |
| 1-78672-076-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910162792903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
International library of the moving image ; ; 38.