User talk:Tpourci1/Action film

This article is overall well-written. The information is concise and easy to understand, and is not too overly detailed. The sources, although somewhat outdated, are still relevant to the topic, and provide useful information that complements the article's content.

Tpourci1 (talk) 15:16, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

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Pope, R. (2012). Doing Justice: A Ritual-Psychoanalytic Approach to Postmodern Melodrama and a Certain Tendency of the Action Film. Cinema Journal, 51(2), 113–136. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2012.0001

This article focuses on defining action films as a genre and utilizing the cinematic experience to further develop our understanding of actions films, as well as to highlight the various ins and outs that they possess. The author focuses on the digital era and compiles various surveys in order to compare the differences and responses between audiences pertaining to action films. This article also describes how the cinematic experience has evolved over the years and has been shaped by the various technological advances of the digital era. The author uses various action film examples, analyzes their character’s actions and plot developments, and forms a conclusion on what message those elements are trying to portray.

Ebsworth, J. (2018). THE YEAR OF THE action WOMAN. Health & Fitness Magazine, 50–53.

This article focuses on the new era of women in action films, and how there is a largely growing amount of female representation of female action characters on the screen. Women are now being given more chances to showcase their abilities in more daring genres. The author also focuses on the social impact that this has had on other women when they see females play the role of a strong and capable character, rather than a quiet and submissive role. Women are no longer having to be limited to these roles. This article also focuses on the physical demands that are present with a role in an action film, such as the various training periods, diets, and readiness that must be present for a female action character to be fully prepared.

Christiansen, S. L. (2018). Mediating potency and fear: action movies’ affect. Cultural Studies, 32(1), 43–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2017.1400573

This article focuses on the effects that action films have on audiences or on the human body in general, specifically with emotions such as fear. This article describes action and the elements that make an action film what is. The author describes what specifically can cause this fear, and how certain angles and perspectives can invoke this fear, and emotions in general such as stress. The author uses various scenes from movies to describes how certain sounds in a movie theatre or how certain images and camera shots can invoke fear and can keep an audience engaged. Certain styles of filming also influence the audience, and certain frequencies invoke fear more than others. Tpourci1 (talk) 15:56, 3 October 2020 (UTC)