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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Action Films"”.
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"Terrorism Is Theater": How Antagonist Portrayals in Action Films Affect Stereotyping and Impression Formation
… examined portrayals of terrorists in several action films and their effects on participants' thoughts concerning the films and their characters. A 2 x 2 x 2 factorial experiment was used to test the effects of antagonist ethnicity (white or non-white), antagonist portrayal type (sympathetic or …
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Heroes on the home front : heroism and virtue in post-9/11 American cinema /
… male hero in mainstream American war and action films post September 11, 2001 . The thesis investigates how these heroes' behaviour echoes a patriotic, conservative construction of the modern American as created through speeches given by George W. Bush in the wake of the events of …
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Visualising sport : A theory and practice of dramatic construction and cinematic form.
… include both dramas and documentaries; popular action films for peak-time broadcasting and minutely researched specialised works. I am the only film director to have been official programme maker for the Union of European Football Associations, the International Federation of Football …
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Citing the viewer : ethnography, film theory and experiences of martial arts action cinema.
… and opinions of people who actually watch films into any film theory or criticism genuinely concerned to analyse, evaluate or otherwise interpret films and/or those who watch them. In particular, it suggests there is a need to re-think the status of film experiencers as informants who are …
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In plane sight: theories of film spectatorship and animation
… do not attempt to approximate the look of live action filming. The study considers the usefulness of psychoanalytic theories, cognitive studies, and cultural studies approaches to film spectatorship, in particular, to grasping animation’s impact on audiences. I argue that aspects of those film …