Crank it up

Jason Statham: star!
Herausgeber: Gerrard, Steven; Shail, Robert

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781526142771
• ISBN-10: 1526142775
• Artikelnr.: 57372047

Autorenporträt

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 Northern Film School, School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University

Inhaltsangabe

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