Action and Adventure Cinema
Yvonne Tasker (ed.)
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Articles
| Author: | Yvonne Tasker |
| Title: | Introduction, Action and adventure cinema |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 1-13 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Author: | Jennifer M. Bean |
| Title: | 'Trauma Thrills', Notes on early action cinema |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 17-30 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Author: | Richard Abel |
| Title: | The 'culture war' of sensational melodrama, 1910-14 |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 31-51 |
| Illustrations: | yes |
| Author: | Ben Singer |
| Title: | 'Child of Commerce! Bastard of Art!', Early film melodrama |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 52-70 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Author: | Steve Neale |
| Title: | Action-Adventure as Hollywood Genre |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 71-83 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Author: | Marc Jancovich |
| Title: | Dwight Macdonald and the Historical Epic |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 84-99 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Author: | Martin Flanagan |
| Title: | 'Get Ready for Rush Hour', The chronotope inaction |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 103-118 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Author: | Aylish Wood |
| Title: | the Collapse of Reality and Illusion in The Matrix |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 119-129 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Related film: |
The Matrix (1999) |
| Author: | Tico Romao |
| Title: | Guns and Gas, Investigating the 1970s car chase film |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 130-152 |
| Illustrations: | yes |
| Author: | Michael Hammond |
| Title: | Saving Private Ryan's 'special affect' |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 153-166 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Related film: |
Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
| Author: | Linda Ruth Williams |
| Title: | Ready for Action, G.I. Jane, Demi Moore's body and the female combat movie |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 169-185 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Related film: |
G.I. Jane (1997) |
| Related person: |
Demi Moore |
| Author: | Mary Beltrán |
| Title: | Más Macha, The new Latina action hero |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 186-200 |
| Illustrations: | yes |
| Author: | Marc O'Day |
| Title: | Beauty in Motion, Gender, spectacle and action babe cinema |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 201-218 |
| Illustrations: | yes |
| Author: | Susan Jeffords |
| Title: | Breakdown, White masculinity, class, and US action-adventure films |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 219-234 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Author: | Martin Fradley |
| Title: | Maximus Melodramaticus, Masculinity, masochism and white male paranoia in contemporary Hollywood cinema |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 235-251 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Author: | Yvonne Tasker |
| Title: | The Family in Action |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 252-266 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Author: | Leon Hunt |
| Title: | The Hong Kong/Hollywood Connection, Stardom and spectacle in transnational action cinema |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 269-283 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Author: | Christine Holmlund |
| Title: | Europeans in Action! |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 284-296 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Related persons: |
Dolph Lundgren Rutger Hauer Jeroen Krabbé Christopher Lambert Jean-Claude van Damme |
| Author: | Lydia Papadimitriou |
| Title: | Greek War Film as Melodrama, Women, female stars and the nation as victim |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 297-308 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Author: | Dimitris Eleftheriotis |
| Title: | Spaghetti Western, Genre Criticism and National Cinema, Re-defining the frame of reference |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 309-327 |
| Illustrations: | yes |
| Author: | Stephen Prince |
| Title: | Genre and Violence in the Work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 331-344 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Related persons: |
Akira Kurosawa Sam Peckinpah |
| Author: | Tony Williams |
| Title: | The Dirty Dozen, The contradictory nature of screen violence |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 345-357 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Related film: |
The Dirty Dozen (1967) |
| Author: | Peter Krämer |
| Title: | 'It's Aimed at Kids - The Kid in Everybody', George Lucas, Star Wars and children's entertainment |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 358-370 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Related film: |
Star Wars (1977) |
| Related persons: |
George Lucas |
| Author: | Barry Keith Grant |
| Title: | Man's Favourite Sport?, The action films of Kathryn Bigelow |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 371-384 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Related persons: |
Kathryn Bigelow |
| Author: | Rachel Williams |
| Title: | 'They Call Me "Action Woman"', The marketing of Mimi Leder as a new concept in the high concept 'action' film |
| in: | Yvonne Tasker (ed.), Action and Adventure Cinema, London and New York, 2004 |
| Pp: | 385-397 |
| Illustrations: | no |
| Related persons: |
Mimi Leder |