| Description |
1 online resource (121 pages) |
| Series |
Studying Films |
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Studying films.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 into the English village supermarket and local pub. In this first critical study of arguably the most influential British film-makers to emerge this century, Neil Archer considers to what extent a modestly funded film such as this can be considered ;British' at all, given its international success an |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wright, Edgar, 1974-
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| SUBJECT |
Wright, Edgar, 1974- fast |
| Subject |
Police films -- History and criticism
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Comedy films -- History and criticism
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Comedy films
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Police films
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780993238413 |
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0993238416 |
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