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POSTMODERNISM
Jameson
links postmodernism to late capitalism, emphasizing a cultural sensibility characterized by reprocessing images and fragmented representations
Concept of 'cultural dominant' is fluid, shifting between subjective and objective interpretations.
Architecture exemplifies this shift, with hyperspaces like Los Angeles' Bonaventure Hotel symbolizing multinational capital's dominance.
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TASKER
Action cinema emphasizes muscular, outsider heroes often disonnected from state support.
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Scenes of violence and combat serve as outlets for sadistic and voyeuristic impulses. (Neale, 12)
"The armed struggle mobilizes the people; that is to say, it throws them in one way and in one direction." (Fanon, 8)
Miller's 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road, threw men's rights activists in the direction of boycott. Seems masculinity can handle anything but women in a role that actually does something. (de Coning, nd)
everything moving, nothing holding still.
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Al Powell remains on the outside providing support to McClane on the inside. Limited himself to desk duty after accidentally shooting a kid. Self-castration. Family Man.
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I know... and I do my own stunts, too.
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"the cinema as a technical performance, as prowess, as an exploit, an exploit that underlines and denounces the lack on which the whole arrangement is based" (Doane quoting Metz, 173)
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The Haitian apartment scene from Bad Boys II is one of the best technical scenes. The orbital shot is the action that creates the spectacle. (Bay 2003)
"the aesthetic privileging of sensational movement, aggressive energy, and unsettling form" (Bean, 18)
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a revised human body, one built to withstand the velocity of speed. (Bean, 25)
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(McTiernen, 1988)
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(Verhoeven, 1990)
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(Mann, 2006)
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(Cameron, 1986)
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(Cameron, 1986)
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(Mann, 2006)
(Siegel, 1971)
(Cosmatos, 1985)
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(Winner, 1974)
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ADDITIONAL TERMS: flux, dad body/goldilocks bod, SOFT BODY, HARD BODY black buddies, BROMOSEXUALITY excess, spectacle, VEHICLES
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(Bigelow, 1991)
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I LOVE YOU BRO, BUT NOT LIKE THAT
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The Bowery King and his network of homeless foot soldiers feed Wick intel and cover through the city. Castrated by Wick, still helps him.
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Venusville Mars. The land of mutants, criminals, and Jack in the Box
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Marcus. Family Man. The butt of the jokes. Always shown as the "way back" back up to his partner Mike.
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She wrote, directed, and performed all of her own stunts for 191 episodes of The Hazards of Helen.
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"The automobile is a work of art but also an agent of destruction." (Orr, p. 8)
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The Postapocalyptic world of Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015)
"The heroic machine is usually a car that belongs to a previous decade." (Orr, p. 4)
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John Wick's 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 (Strahelski, 2017)
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the unreal energy of the band in this scene from Mad Max adds a layer of visual and auditory stimulation that is truly a spectacle.
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"the woman who becomes the model of the perfect machine" (Doane, 1990)