Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘Where are we, and how did we get here?’
- 1 Narrative and the action film
- 2 The action body
- 3 The action sequence
- 4 Action women
- 5 Action men
- 6 Race in the action film
- 7 Homosexuality in the action film
- 8 Action cinema after 9/11
- 9 The ‘European connection’
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Television Series
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘Where are we, and how did we get here?’
- 1 Narrative and the action film
- 2 The action body
- 3 The action sequence
- 4 Action women
- 5 Action men
- 6 Race in the action film
- 7 Homosexuality in the action film
- 8 Action cinema after 9/11
- 9 The ‘European connection’
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Television Series
- Index
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- Contemporary Action Cinema , pp. vPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2011