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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 |