DedicationAcknowledgments1. Birds, Lambs and Butterflies2. The Sum and the Parts: Horror, Crime and the Woman's Picture3. Detection and Deduction4. The Female Gothic5. Under the Skin6. Afterword to the 2021 EditionCredits
Yvonne Tasker is Chair in Media and Communication in the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK. She is the foremost action scholar in the UK, writing the field-defining Spectacular Bodies (1993) and Working Girls (1998), editing Action and Adventure Cinema (2004), and authoring Soldiers' Stories (2011) and The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film (2015).