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Fighting Fate : Professional Vengeance in John Wick Berry, Gabrielle; Coulthard, Lisa; Steenberg, Lindsay; Wade, Harrison

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Fighting Fate is an essay film focused on the John Wick franchise. It maps a shift in vengeance narratives, exemplified by John Wick, away from emotional motivations and towards professional ones. Representing Wick as a cyclical machine of vengeance, the essay film focuses on how the fight sequence at the Red Circle reframes violence as professional communication.

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Title
Fighting Fate : Professional Vengeance in John Wick
Creator
Berry, Gabrielle; Coulthard, Lisa; Steenberg, Lindsay; Wade, Harrison
Date Issued
2021-09-28
Description
Fighting Fate is an essay film focused on the John Wick franchise. It maps a shift in vengeance narratives, exemplified by John Wick, away from emotional motivations and towards professional ones. Representing Wick as a cyclical machine of vengeance, the essay film focuses on how the fight sequence at the Red Circle reframes violence as professional communication.
Subject
John Wick; Film; Video Essay; Sound; Violence; Language; Cinema; Seriality; Digital; Postmodern
Genre
Other
Type
Moving Image
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columba. FIST
Date Available
2022-10-27
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0421621
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/83071
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; Theatre and Film, Department of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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