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

• Main Author: Bothmann, Nils (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-United States.; Popular Culture.; Film genres.; American Cinema and TV.; Popular Culture .; Genre.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Genre Theory
• The Action Genre
• The Detection Genre
• The DetAction Genre
• Close Readings of Shane Black's Work.