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Point Break: Movies Minute by Minute

Point Break: Movies Minute by Minute

Rombes, Nicholas
Boljkovac, Nadine
Naish, Stephen Lee

Paperback

Series: Timecodes

DirectorsFilm StudiesGeneral Gender Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 3, 2026

ISBN13: 9798216374145
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Sep 3 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

Point Break, in Bloomsbury's Timecodes Series, is a detailed, minute-by-minute critical exploration of Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 action film Point Break.

Moving sequentially through the film's two-hour runtime, the book blends formal analysis, cultural history and theory, action genre study, and personal reflection and interpretation. It positions Point Break as both a quintessential action spectacle and a film layered with thematic tensions: masculinity, spirituality, individual risk, personal freedom, environmental awareness, and the search for one's identity. Each minute of the film is treated as a self-contained unit. The cinematography, editing, sound design, performances, and narrative beats are discussed in relation to broader social contexts including surfing subculture, mid-to-late-20th-century American politics, post-Vietnam War attitudes, and the evolving media images of Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.

Drawing on a wide array of sources, such as film theory, cultural criticism, and surf memoirs, the book

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