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. This 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. This first in a new series of "Sight and Sound Readers" includes case studies of such key figures as John Woo and Arnold Schwarzenegger and a wide range of articles that focus on some of the most successful films of the 90s ("Speed", "Jurassic Park", "Titanic") and some of the most important directors (Cameron, Spielberg, Bigelow, Tarantino, Mann).
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"Funky and alive . . . subversive . . . a top read."--"Cinema Papers
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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.
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For close to a quarter-century action/spectacle has been the most popular and most critically derided mode of film-making in Hollywood. Read the first page
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An Interesting Look at a "New" Genre
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This book is a collection of essays and reviews from SIGHT AND SOUND that cover the Big Loud Action Movies of the Nineties. There is some repetition, and some of the pieces fail, but on the whole, I enjoyed this book.
I enjoyed it because it offered intelligent commentary on movies like "Last of the Mohicans," "Heat" (with DeNiro and Pacino), "Silence of the Lambs," "Titanic," "Hook," "Saving Private Ryan," etc. In other words, movies that I had seen. I appreciated that someone found something intelligent to say about these films, instead of acting as if the only Nineties movies worth seeing were Iranian.
I look forward to futher Sight and Sound genre volumes, and I wish that Sight and Sound were more available in the USA.
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