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Experts in Action - Lauren Steimer

Experts in Action

Transnational Hong Kong–Style Stunt Work and Performance

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Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1057-9 (ISBN)
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Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong-influenced action movie aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up, imitated, and reinvented in other locations and production contexts around the globe.
Action movie stars ranging from Jackie Chan to lesser-known stunt women and men like Zoë Bell and Chad Stahelski stun their audiences with virtuosic martial arts displays, physical prowess, and complex fight sequences. Their performance styles originate from action movies that emerged in the industrial environment of 1980s Hong Kong. In Experts in Action Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong--influenced cinema aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up, imitated, and reinvented in other locations and production contexts in Hollywood, New Zealand, and Thailand. Foregrounding the transnational circulation of Hong Kong--influenced films, television shows, stars, choreographers, and stunt workers, she shows how stunt workers like Chan, Bell, and others combine techniques from martial arts, dance, Peking opera, and the history of movie and television stunting practices to create embodied performances that are both spectacular and, sometimes, rendered invisible. By describing the training, skills, and labor involved in stunt work as well as the location-dependent material conditions and regulations that impact it, Steimer illuminates the expertise of the workers whose labor is indispensable to some of the world's most popular movies.

Lauren Steimer is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Media Arts at the University of South Carolina.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Experts in Action  1
1. Risky Business: Financial and Physical Risk in the Action Stardom of Jackie Chan  23
2. Hong Kong Action Cinema as a Mode in Thai Action Stardom: Tony Jaa and the New Stunting Star Model  56
3. A Hong Kong Reservoir for Xena: Communicative Translation and the Bodily Disposition of Stunting Star Zoë Bell  86
4. Hong Kong Action in Transit: The Postmillennial Stunt Craftwork of Chad Stahelski and Dayna Grant  121
Conclusion. Novice and Expert Performance—a Call to Action  162
Notes  175
Bibliography  199
Index  215

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 49 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 476 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4780-1057-6 / 1478010576
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-1057-9 / 9781478010579
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