Author Archive for: ‘Diana Sandars’
From the warehouse to the multiplex: techno and rave culture’s reconfiguration of late 1990s sci-fi spectacle as musical performance
Since cinema’s inception, the choreographed fight sequence has endured as a site of spectacular display, evolving from Douglas Fairbanks’ athletic fight sequences to the stylised showdown between Neo and Mr. Smith in The Matrix(USA 1999). [1] In the late 1990s techno music was employed to aurally heighten the spectacle of fight scenes in science fiction films, effectively reconfiguring these scenes as …
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