Origins of the Action Film

Barrowman, Kyle

doi:10.1002/9781119100744.ch1

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“…This same methodology can be applied to the same dataset, but at different levels, for example, to study the evolution of the tropes in a genre, country, or in a specific decade, as the study of tropes have importance to those scholars interested in film story [ 17 ]. Furthermore, TV Tropes also includes tropes in other media, such as videogames or comics, so a similar analysis could be also performed in those different fields.…”

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“…There are available in the literature some works studying specific tropes in film and media studies. For example in [ 17 ] action films tropes are discussed, including characters tropes (cop, cowboy), actions (chase, last minute rescue) and techniques (for example, camera shaking movement). More works have focused in other kind of tropes, such as the trope of the Zombies [ 18 ], scenes that take place in a museum [ 19 ], or even as specific as the Brazilian housemaid [ 20 ].…”

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The Simpsons did it: Exploring the film trope space and its large scale structure

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Creating a story is a challenging task due to the the complex relations between the parts that make it up, which is why many new stories are built on those cohesive elements or patterns, called tropes that have been shown to work in the past. A trope is a recurring storytelling device or pattern, or sometimes a meta-element, used by the authors to express ideas that the audience can recognize or relate to, such as the Hero’s Journey. Discovering tropes and how they cluster in popular works and doing it at scale to generate new plots may benefit writers; in this paper, we analyze them and use a principled procedure to identify trope combinations, or communities, that could possible be successful. The degree of development of these different communities can help us identify areas that are under-developed and, thus, susceptible to such a type of development. To detect these communities, with their associated degree of development and interest, we propose a methodology based on scientometric and complex network analysis techniques. As a secondary objective, we will obtain a general perspective in the trope and films network: the tropesphere. We have used a dataset of 10,766 movies and 25,776 tropes associated with them, together with rating, genres and popularity. Our analysis has shown that not only there are different trope communities associated with specific genres, and that there are significant differences between the rating and popularity of these communities but also there are differences on the level of development between them: emerging/declining, specific, transversal or motor.

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confidence: 99%