Crank it up : Jason Statham: star! /
Jason Statham has risen from street seller through championship diving and modelling to become arguably the biggest British male film star of the twenty-first century. This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of his work across a variety of media, including film, television, video games a...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.21995473 |
جدول المحتويات:
- 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: <i>The Bank Job</i> and the British heist movie / James Chapman
- 7. Jason Statham in <i>Spy</i>: 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.