The Action Mode: Mile 22 and the Tension of Hypermediated Embodiment by Jonah Jeng

“…Furthermore, I propose that what I am calling the action mode – action cinema’s anxious articulation of the physical body’s limits and capacities – is ideally suited to making this tension not only seen but felt. The film Mile 22 (Peter Berg, 2018), by combining the action mode with an aesthetic and thematic exploration of extreme hypermediacy, exemplifies the action mode’s potential in this way.…”
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