Introduction: Gender and the action cinema -- 1. Women Warriors: Gender, sexuality and Hollywood's fighting heroines -- 2. Black Buddies and White Heroes: Racial discourse in the action cinema -- 3. New Hollywood, Genre and the Action Cinema -- 4. Tough Guys and Wise-Guys: Masculinities and star images in the action cinema -- 5. Masculinity, Politics and National Identity -- 6. The Body in Crisis Or the Body Triumphant? -- 7. Action Heroines in the 1980s: The limits of 'musculinity' -- 8. The Cinema as Experience: Kathryn Bigelow and the cinema of spectacle
Analysis
Cinema Films (Motion pictures)
Cinema Films (Motion pictures)
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Filmography: pages 178-185
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-190) and index
