Gerrard / Unknown / Shail Crank it up

Jason Statham: star!
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4278-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Jason Statham is Britain’s most important post-millennial male film star. This book examines his work throughout a career encompassing film, television, music videos, multi-media platforms and video gaming.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Gerrard, Steven

Shail, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Steven Gerrard and Robert Shail
1 Reframing the British tough guy: Jason Statham as postmodern hero - Robert Shail
2 ‘I’m certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt’: Jason Statham, fandom and a new type of (anti)hero - Renee Middlemost
3 The power of Statham - Paul Feig
4 ‘It’s that peasant mentality’: the cult persona of Jason Statham, Hollywood outsider - Jonathan Mack
5 A balancing act(or): Jason Statham and the ensemble film – Sarah Thomas
6 Blagging it both ways: The Bank Job and the British heist movie - James Chapman
7 Jason Statham in Spy: subverting genre and gender - Clare Smith
8 Arthouse Statham - Martin Carter
9 Transporting Jason Statham: national identity in the Transporter trilogy - Jennie Lewis-Vidler
10 The avatar hero: exploring the virtualisation of the Statham brand - Dean Bowman and Erin Pearson
11 Ageing Statham: expendable expendable? - Nathasha Parcei
12 Crank it up! Scoring Statham - Shelley O’Brien
13 Clothes make the man: Statham’s sartorial serendipity - Steven Gerrard
Conclusion - Steven Gerrard and Robert Shail
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shail Robert:
Robert Shail is Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Wales, Trinity St David.Steven Gerrard is Reader in Film in the Northern Film School, School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University
Robert Shail is Professor of Film and Director of Research in the School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University