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Action/Spectacle Cinema: A Sight and Sound Reader [Paperback]

Jose Arroyo (Editor)
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0851707572 978-0851707570 January 22, 2008
This work asserts that popular films dismissed as "popcorn" movies should be taken seriously. The volume includes case studies of such key figures as John Woo and a range of articles that focus on some of the most successful films of the 90s like "Titanic" and directors like Tarantino.

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"Funky and alive . . . subversive . . . a top read."--"Cinema Papers

About the Author

José 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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  • Paperback: 196 pages
  • Publisher: British Film Institute (January 22, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0851707572
  • ISBN-13: 978-0851707570
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,660,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars An Interesting Look at a "New" Genre, August 12, 2002
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This review is from: Action/Spectacle Cinema: A Sight and Sound Reader (Paperback)
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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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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Hong Kong, Oliver Stone, New York, Gavin Smith, John Woo, Reservoir Dogs, Die Hard, True Lies, Cape Fear, Jurassic Park, Last Action Hero, Mars Attacks, Natural Born Killers, Los Angeles, Big Loud Action Movie, Van Damme, Hard Target, Amy Taubin, Star Wars, The Wild Bunch, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Strange Days, Lethal Weapon, Steven Spielberg, World War
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