Action and adventure cinema /
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 'Trauma thrills' : notes on early action cinema / Jennifer M. Bean
- The 'culture war' of sensational melodrama, 1910-14 / Richard Abel
- 'Child of commerce! Bastard of art!' : early film melodrama / Ben Singer
- Action-adventure as Hollywood genre / Steve Neale
- Dwight Macdonald and the historical epic / Mark Jancovich
- 'Get ready for rush hour' : the chronotype in action / Martin Flanagan
- The collapse of reality and illusion in The matrix / Aylish Wood
- Guns and gas : investigating the 1970s car chase film / Tico Romao
- Saving Private Ryan's 'special affect' / Michael Hammond
- Ready for action : G.I. Jane, Demi Moore's body and the female combat movie / Linda Ruth Williams
- Más macha : the new Latina action hero / Mary Beltrán
- Beauty in motion : gender, spectacle and action babe cinema / Marc O'Day
- Breakdown : white masculinity, class, and US action-adventure films / Susan Jeffords
- Maximus melodramaticus : masculinity, masochism and white male paranoia in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Martin Fradley
- The family in action / Yvonne Tasker
- The Hong Kong/Hollywood connection : stardom and spectacle in transnational action cinema / Leon Hunt
- Europeans in action! / Christine Holmlund
- Greek war film as melodrama : women, female stars, and the nation as victim / Lydia Papadimitriou
- Spaghetti western, genre criticism and national cinema : re-defining the frame of reference / Dimitris Eleftheriotis
- Genre and violence in the work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah / Stephen Prince
- The dirty dozen : the contradictory nature of screen violence / Tony Williams
- 'It's aimed at kids
- the kid in everybody' : George Lucas, Star wars and children's entertainment / Peter Krämer
- Man's favourite sport? The action films of Kathryn Bigelow / Barry Keith Grant
- 'They call me "action woman" ' : the marketing of Mimi Leder as a new concept in the high concept 'action' film / Rachel Williams.