Studying Hot Fuzz /
By the power of Greyskull! In their second big-screen collaboration after Shaun of the Dead (2004), with Hot Fuzz (2007) director and co-writer Edgar Wright and co-writer and star Simon Pegg took aim at the conventions of the Hollywood action movie, transplanting gratuitous slo-mo action sequences i...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Leighton Buzzard :
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2015.
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| Series: | Studying films.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv13841dh |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Beyond a Joke?; 1. Sandford, Hollywood: Hot Fuzz and the Business of British Cinema; 2. The Shit Just Got Real: Hot Fuzz and the Uses of Parody; 3. I Kinda Like It Here: Hot Fuzz as National Cinema; 4. Fanboys in Toyland: Hot Fuzz and movie stardom; 5. From Hollywood to the End of the World; Conclusion: Seriously Good Fun; Bibliography; Index.