Action figures [electronic resource] : men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives / by Mark Gallagher.
By: Gallagher, Mark.
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BookPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006Edition: 1st ed.Description: vi, 234 p.Subject(s): Action and adventure films -- United States -- History and criticism | Men in motion pictures | Masculinity in motion pictures | Heroes in motion picturesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 791.43/655 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-226) and index.
Introduction : popular representations of active masculinity since the late 1960s -- 1. Armchair thrills and the new adventurer -- 2. "I married Rambo" : action, spectacle, and melodrama -- 3. Omega men : late 1960s and early 1970s action heroes -- 4. Airport fiction : the men of mass-market literature -- 5. Restaging heroic masculinity : Jackie Chan and the Hong Kong action film -- Conclusion : the future of active masculinity.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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