Hollywood Action Films and Spatial Theory

Autorentext

Nick Jones teaches film studies at Queen Mary University of London. He writes on contemporary Hollywood, digital effects and stereoscopic 3-D, and has been published in the journals New Cinemas, Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal and New Review of Film and Television Studies.

Klappentext

This book applies the discourse of the so-called `spatial turn to popular contemporary cinema, in particular the action sequences of twenty-first century Hollywood productions.

Zusammenfassung
This book applies the discourse of the so-called âspatial turnâ™ to popular contemporary cinema, in particular the action sequences of twenty-first century Hollywood productions.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Architecture: Appropriating Iconic Forms 2. Space: Surviving the Non-Places of Globalisation 3. Place: Meaning Through Movement 4. Paraspaces: Spatial Displacement and Consumerism 5. Cyberspace: Embodying Digital Networks Conclusion: Action and Everyday Life