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Publication Date
2025.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (34 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Welcome back to THE FILM LIBRARY, a Kanopy podcast where we celebrate cinematic detours, cult favorites, and emotional deep cuts - no film degree required. This week, hosts Kristy Puchko (Entertainment Editor at Mashable) and Jeff Rauseo (film lover, mixtape curator, and your pop culture pit stop concierge) are hitting the road, literally and cinematically, with an episode all about road trip movies. From cross-country chaos to soulful slow drives,...
Publication Date
[2018]
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King T'Challa returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne from divisions within his own country. When two enemies conspire to destroy Wakanda, the hero known as Black Panther must join forces with C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross and members of the Wakandan Special Forces, to prevent Wakanda from being drawn into a world war.
3) Paper moon
Publication Date
1973
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Ryan O’Neal teams up with his daughter Tatum in this bright, warm, and funny period film for which Tatum won an **Oscar** for her first film role, making her the youngest actress to ever receive this honor. O’Neal plays the smooth-talking con man Moses Pray, driving through depression-era Kansas with a carload of deluxe bibles, a gold tooth behind a convincing smile, and a list of newly widowed prospects for his line. Addie (Tatum O’Neal) is...
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2017.
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1 online resource : illustrations
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La teoría Lacaniana encuentra que placer y goce son conceptos cardinalmente opuestos. El placer emerge en la evaporación de la tensión, mientras que el goce existe dentro de la tensión misma; es decir, el goce se experimenta durante un proceso de inestabilidad y el placer cuando esta inestabilidad termina - cuando el individuo retorna a un estado homeostático -. Este libro explora la idea que cuando una escena de acción se ejecuta satisfactoriamente,...
5) Forrest Gump
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2 videodiscs (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Forrest Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Forrest teaches Elvis to dance, meets JFK, serves in Vietnam, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, defeats the Chinese national team in table tennis, discovers the break-in at the Watergate, opens a shrimping business, becomes an original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back...
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Publication Date
2017.
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1 online resource (ix, 211 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates)
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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...
Publication Date
2004
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1 online resource (xv, 414 pages) : illustrations
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Addressing areas such as genre, film history and style, action and spectacle, stars and bodies, action auteurs and the film industry, the reader covers both Hollywood and also European and Asian action cinema.
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Publication Date
[2014]
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1 online resource
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Considers the significance of female Chinese action stars in national and transnational contexts.
Bronze Medalist, 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women Issues Category
Warrior Women considers the significance of Chinese female action stars in martial arts films produced across a range of national and transnational contexts. Lisa Funnell examines the impact of the 1997 transfer of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule on the representation...
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Publication Date
©2011
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1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) : illustrations
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Action cinema is a popular and familiar form which reflects the cultural, industrial and historical landscape from which it emerges. Lisa Purse analyses the genre's pleasures and complexities in the light of both its cinematic history and the latest critical debates. Focussing on action cinema of the 2000s, this book explores issues of visual style, narrative, representation and the various contexts of production through a diverse series of case studies...
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Publication Date
c2009
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1 online resource (x, 102 p.)
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"Karin Gwinn Wilkins interviews focus groups composed of a diverse cross-section of Americans and analyzes their interpretations of action-adventure film villains of Middle Eastern descent. Wilkins addresses the neglected empirical link between documented media stereotypes of Arab communities and the lived consequences of these portrayals, both in terms of discriminatory practices and generalizations."--Jacket.
Publication Date
2007
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1 online resource (vi, 207 p.) : ill.
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Women Willing to Fight is a collection of essays that explores the presence of the fighting woman in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Drawn from a variety of genres, the authors examine the changing role, image and position of this figure in film over recent decades. The increasing dominance of this character and her repositioning as a protagonist reinvigorates discussion concerning the dynamics of film narrative and spectacle. Each contribution takes...
Publication Date
2005
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Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world's most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of filmmakers working in many different cultural traditions and styles. How do we account for this appeal, which changes as it crosses national borders?Hong Kong Connections brings leading film scholars together...
Publication Date
2022.
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1 online resource.
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Lying at the heart of the modern Action Cinema Canon is the concept of transformation. As the action genre evolves and shifts into the new millennia, innovative additions blend with nostalgic returns - the move away from a male-dominated space to feature even more prominent female roles co-exists alongside a revival of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, and series such as Rocky and Rambo return to the screens. Gender and Action Films 2000 and...
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©2007
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1 online resource (x, 294 pages) : illustrations
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'Director in Action' studies Johnnie To, whose art-house action hits include 'A Hero Never Dies' (1998), 'The Longest Nite' (1998), 'Running out of Time' (1999), 'The Mission' (1999), 'PTU' (2003), 'Breaking News' (2004), 'Election' (2005), and 'Election 2' (2006). The book provides a comprehensive overview of To's career, concentrating on his action films.
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Publication Date
1993
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1 online resource (195 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
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While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a...
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2012
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1 online resource (145 p.)
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"Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back is a study of action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre with reference to its relatively short history. It moves from seminal classics like Bullitt (1968) and Dirty Harry (1971) through epoch-defining films like Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Die Hard (1988) to revisions, reboots, and renewals in films like Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003), Taken (2008), and The Expendables (2010). The...
19) Cinematic journeys in Latin America: geography through the lens of exploration and discovery films
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Publication Date
[2023]
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1 online resource (viii, 257 pages) : illustrations
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"This book critically examines how exploration and discovery films--movies that feature real or imagined explorers and expeditions--creatively feature the geography of Latin America. It focuses on how places and geographical features are scripted into film plots and artistically depicted, and demonstrates that place is as important as any [other] character in a film, especially in this genre. Nineteen key films are analyzed. Some, like Aguirre, the...
20) Dirty Harry
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Publication Date
[2008]
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A rooftop sniper named Scorpio has killed twice. Streetwise San Francisco police detective Harry Callahan will nail the perp one way or another-- no matter what "the system" prescribes.





