{"id":1643,"date":"2018-12-17T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2018-12-24T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T18:59:59","slug":"action-and-adventure-redefining-the-genre-and-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/action-and-adventure-redefining-the-genre-and-sequels\/","title":{"rendered":"Action and Adventure: Redefining the Genre and Sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to another issue of POVwinona! <a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/action-and-adventure-genre-beginnings-and-expansion\/\">In a prior issue our contributors looked back at the roots of the action-adventure genre<\/a>, and in this issue our writers are examining how a variety of sub-genres connect to other films in the genre and generate social commentary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/?p=1552&amp;preview=true\">Noah Mruz starts things off by examining reflections of real-world fears in the action sequences and themes in George Miller&#8217;s 1981\u00a0<em>Mad Max 2<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0Miller features nuclear war as the center of the film to help the audience believe the world Miller is creating, which redefines the action genre. Next, <a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/?p=1521&amp;preview=true\">McKenna Scherer explores how James Cameron&#8217;s 1986\u00a0<em>Aliens\u00a0<\/em>raises the bar for action sequels.<\/a>\u00a0<em>Aliens<\/em> revamps old techniques to produce a larger-than-life atmosphere to create more from a sequel. <a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/?p=1617&amp;preview=true\">Taylor Nasinec expands on the upgrades in the spy thriller sub-genre though David Leitch&#8217;s 2017\u00a0<em>Atomic Blonde<\/em>.<\/a>\u00a0Leitch twists the classic spy film by using neon electric lights, violent action scenes, and techno beats. Lastly, <a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/the-avengers-infinity-war-a-reality-check\/\">Brinley Zoller<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/the-avengers-infinity-war-a-reality-check\/\">examines the balance of dark tones and themes with the fictional story in Anthony and Joe Russo&#8217;s 2018\u00a0<em>Avengers: Infinity War<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your participation in reading this film criticism and analysis and keep an eye out for student short films and analysis of curating enterprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Films like Mad Max 2, Aliens, Atomic Blonde, and Avengers: Infinity War have expanded the action-adventure film genre well beyond its origins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,80],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues","category-left","tag-action"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-05-at-9.38.32-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.winona.edu\/povwinona\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}