Action figures [electronic resource] : men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives / by Mark Gallagher.
Gallagher, Mark, 1968-
2006
PN1995.9.A3 G35 2006eb
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Action figures [electronic resource] : men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives / by Mark Gallagher.
Author
Gallagher, Mark, 1968-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
1403977232
1403970122 (hard. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006.
Language
English
Description
vi, 234 p.
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PN1995.9.A3 G35 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.43/655
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-226) and index.
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Introduction : popular representations of active masculinity since the late 1960s
1. Armchair thrills and the new adventurer
2. "I married Rambo" : action, spectacle, and melodrama
3. Omega men : late 1960s and early 1970s action heroes
4. Airport fiction : the men of mass-market literature
5. Restaging heroic masculinity : Jackie Chan and the Hong Kong action film
Conclusion : the future of active masculinity.

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