Action Cinema Since 2000

Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century.. Contributors examine a broad range of content from blockbusters to smaller independent films originating from China Korea India France the USA and Mexico. Ranging from JSA: Joint Security Area (Gondonggeonygbi guyeok) (2000) to Polite Society (2023) they consider the changing modes of action cinema with streaming assuming global importance and an ever-increasing number of generic blends. They consider under-explored areas of action film particularly how race ethnicity gender and age figure in narratives and through image and soundtracks.. Overall the book demonstrates how 21st century action cinema engages with and reflects geopolitical creative and industrial developments. Contributors argue that it continues to offer fantasies of empowerment and mobility that say much about how power is understood in diverse contexts today.