Action speaks louder : violence, spectacle, and the American action movie / Eric Lichtenfeld.
Lichtenfeld, Eric.
2007
PN1995.9.A3 L48 2007 (Mapit)
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Action speaks louder : violence, spectacle, and the American action movie / Eric Lichtenfeld.
Author
Lichtenfeld, Eric.
ISBN
9780819568014 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0819568015 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2007.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 383 p. : ill. 23 cm.
Call Number
PN1995.9.A3 L48 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.43/655
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Wesleyan film
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Introduction: A Little Violence Never Hurt Anyone
Prelude: 1971
"The Law's Crazy": The Vigilante and Other Myths
Automatons: Rise of the Machines
Enter the Fists: The Body as the Weapon
Into the Jungle, Out of the Wasteland: Action in the Wild
Blowing Up All Those Familiar Places: Terror and the Confined Arena
Unmitigated Disasters: Old Formulas and the New Spectacle
Tomorrow's Heroes Today: Action Meets the Fantastic
Excelsior!: March of the Superheroes
Conclusion: Sifting Through the Rubble.

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