Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives

ISBN-13: 9781349531691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 234 str.

Mark Gallagher; M. Gallagher

Opis

This book uses feminist and cultural-studies analysis to understand the global resonance of contemporary action cinema and its counterparts in popular literature.

Spis treści

Introduction: Popular Representations of Active Masculinity Since the Late 1960s Armchair Thrills and the New Adventurer "I Married Rambo": Spectacle and Melodrama in The Hollywood Action Film Omega Men : Late 1960s and Early 1970s Action Hero Prototypes Airport Fiction: The Men of Mass-Market Literature Restaging Heroic Masculinity: Jackie Chan and the Hong Kong Action Film Conclusion: The Future of Active Masculinity Selected Bibliography Selected Filmography

O autorze

MARK GALLAGHER has taught courses in film history and theory, film genres, and Twentieth-century literature at Oberlin College, the University of Oregon, the University of Missouri, Georgia State University and Oklahoma State University, USA. His articles on film and television have appeared in Jump Cut, Velvet Light Trap, the Journal of Popular Film and Television, the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, the Journal of Film and Video, and in other journals and anthologies.