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

Bothmann, Nils

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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Published by: Springer VS

Publication Date: 2018-11-19

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783658240776

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-24078-3

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 344