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Gender and action films 1980-2000 : beauty in motion /

Sylvester Stallone's action thriller, First Blood, hit cinema screens in 1982, leading to the cementing of what can be called the Action Movie Canon. With films like Die Hard, Under Siege and Total Recall pioneering post-millennial Action Movies such as Tomb Raider, The Bourne Identity and Atom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gerrard, Steven, 1970- (Editor ), Middlemost, Renee, 1980- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing, 2023.
Colección:Emerald studies in popular culture and gender.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Steven Gerrard and Renée Middlemost
  • Part 1. Masculinity and anxiety
  • Chapter 1. From total recall to last action hero(ine): Sex, violence and Sharon Stone in the 1990s / Susan Hopkins
  • Chapter 2. Gender spaces in action films: The Mad Max franchise / Eduardo Barros-Grela
  • Chapter 3. "I'll be no man's slave and no man's whore, and if I can't kill them all, by the gods they'll know I've tried." Swords, sorcery and barbarian queens / Steven Gerrard
  • Chapter 4. Masculinity and the buddy cop film / Racheal Harris
  • Chapter 5. Riding the waves of crisis: Point break and masculinity in 1990s American action cinema / Kate Bowen
  • Part 2. Transformative femininity
  • Chapter 6. Motherhood and machoism: The multi-dimensional Ellen Ripley of James Cameron's aliens / Brennan Thomas
  • Chapter 7. Babes on bikes: Shame, rape revenge, and a woman on a motorcycle as an action heroine / Rebecca Johinke
  • Chapter 8. Action women in contemporary Colombian cinema: Female warriors and emancipations within illegal armed organisations / Karol Valderrama-Burgos
  • Chapter 9. 'Sexism in survival situations': Reconsidering gender in Jurassic Park / Travis Holland and Lisa Watt
  • Part 3. Gender/politics and 80s action
  • Chapter 10. Sword-wielding and gun-shooting women: Gender and post-colonial hong kong in Wong Kar-Wai's films / Chin-Pang Lei
  • Chapter 11. Gender, ideational populism, and the eighties action cinema / John Quinn
  • Chapter 12. A rainbow-coloured riot on Hollywood Boulevard: Even an avenging angel needs a little help from her elderly and LGBTQ friends sometimes / Lee Broughton
  • Part 4. Gender and action stars
  • Chapter 13. Arnold's anima: Gender subversion in Schwarzenegger's commando / Tim Butler Garrett
  • Chapter 14. From the One to John Wick: Keanu Reeves and the action genre / Rebecca Feasey Conclusion / Steven Gerrard and Renée Middlemost.