Action, Detection and Shane Black: Antiessentialist Genre Theory and Its Application

Action, Detection and Shane Black: Antiessentialist Genre Theory and Its Application
ISBN-10
3658240784
ISBN-13
9783658240783
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
344
Language
English
Published
2018-11-11
Publisher
Springer
Author
Nils Bothmann

Description

Nils Bothmann applies antiessentialist genre theory to study the fusion of the action and the detection genre in the hybrid genre of detAction, focusing on the work of screenwriter and director Shane Black. After providing antiessentialist definitions of all three genres, the author undertakes close readings of Black’s work in order to analyze depictions of race and gender as well as the role of intermediality and genre hybridity in detAction.​

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