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Drone Age Cinema: Action Film and Sensory Assault
Steen Ledet Christiansen
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Description for Drone Age Cinema: Action Film and Sensory Assault
Hardcover. Action cinema is entering the drone age. Series: International Library of Visual Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 428.
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 with its own through force and intensity. In this book, Steen Ledet Christiansen identifies five aspects central to how action films produce such physical movements and responses through vectors, ... Read more
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 with its own through force and intensity. In this book, Steen Ledet Christiansen identifies five aspects central to how action films produce such physical movements and responses through vectors, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
International Library of Visual Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784536404
SKU
V9781784536404
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About Steen Ledet Christiansen
Steen Ledet Christiansen is Associate Professor of English at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on popular visual culture, particularly film and the burgeoning field of post-cinema.
Reviews for Drone Age Cinema: Action Film and Sensory Assault
This extraordinary book combines lucid philosophical insight with careful analysis of film technique. Steen Christiansen shows us how recent action films actually work; and he speculates on why we are drawn to such films, and what this tells us about the state of digital culture.
Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University, USA; author of Post Cinematic Affect Drone Age Cinema compellingly argues ... Read more
Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University, USA; author of Post Cinematic Affect Drone Age Cinema compellingly argues ... Read more