Studying Hot Fuzz
Neil Archer
- Pages
- 119 pages
- Published
- 2021
Content report card
What's inside
Violence
Fighting, weapons, death
Language
Swearing, crude humor
Sexual content
Romance intensity, nudity
LGBTQ+ themes
Presence of characters or themes
Scary or mature
Horror, trauma, heavy themes
Substance use
Alcohol, drugs, smoking
What it offers
Positive messages
Kindness, courage, honesty, resilience
Positive role models
Characters who model good judgment and growth
Educational value
History, science, culture, how the world works
A note for parents
This is an academic critical study of the film 'Hot Fuzz,' not a children's book. The metadata describes scholarly analysis of filmmaking, genre conventions, and cultural specificity rather than the book's own content. Without access to the actual text, we cannot assess whether it contains profanity, examples from the film, or mature discussion topics. Parents should note this appears to be a university-level film studies text intended for older teens or adults.
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From the publisher
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... 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. This book, provides a critical study of arguably the most influential British film-makers to emerge this century, considers to what extent a modestly funded film such as this can be considered 'British' at all, given its international success and distribution by an American studio, and how far that success depends upon what the book calls its 'cultural specificity'. It considers the film as a parody of the action-movie genre, and discusses exactly how parody works.
Shelved under
- Comedy films
ISBN 9781800341951