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Assaulting Wall Street Pour la Beauté du Geste

Celluloid Liberation Front
July 2013
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“I don’t initiate violence, I retaliate.” –Chuck Norris Plot Synopsis (major spoiler alert): Jim (Dominic Purcell) is the kind of working class dude New York used to be inhabited by before his ilk was driven ...

Beyond Bruce Lee: Or How Paul Bowman Never Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Movies

Kyle Barrowman
June 2013
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At the risk of crying wolf, it seems accurate to characterize academic film studies as being more than simply interdisciplinary, as more perilously resembling a discipline in the throes of schizophrenia. With t...

Colombiana: Europa Corp and the Ambiguous Geopolitics of the Action Movie

David Martin-Jones
March 2012
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The films made and distributed by Luc Besson’s company are, too often, dismissed by critics. Yet they may, argues David Martin-Jones, provide interesting insights into understanding global cinema.

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