[ecrea] Contemporary Action Cinema - Lisa Purse

New from Edinburgh University Press:* Contemporary Action Cinema* by 
*Lisa Purse
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/"An impressive, intelligent book which takes account of the genre's 
past but focuses attention on its present.  Both rigorous and engaging, 
Purse brings our understanding of action up to date."/ - Yvonne Tasker, 
University of East Anglia

/"A valuable contribution to analysis of the action film, offering 
sustained examination of the formal qualities of action set-pieces and 
the ideological frameworks in which they are typically embedded."/ - 
Geoff King, Professor of Film & TV Studies, Brunel University

Focussing on action cinema of the 2000s, this textbook explores issues 
of visual style, narrative, representation and the various contexts of 
production through a diverse series of case studies including /Avatar, 
Casino Royale, The Hurt Locker/ and /Banlieue 13.
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*Lisa Purse* is Lecturer in Film in the Department of Film, Theatre & 
Television at the University of Reading.
April 2011 | 232pp | b+w illustrations | Pb 978 0 7486 3818 5 | £19.99

Find out more: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748638185