TY - GEN N2 - Overview: Blood, Guns, and Testosterone: Action Films, Audiences, and a Thirst for Violence is a study of the modern action film as a symbolic art of masculinity and a study of this genre's fans who discuss the functions film violence fulfills in their lives. Far from causing real life violence, the book demonstrates that entertainment violence has important social, political, and psychological roles in modern society. AB - Overview: Blood, Guns, and Testosterone: Action Films, Audiences, and a Thirst for Violence is a study of the modern action film as a symbolic art of masculinity and a study of this genre's fans who discuss the functions film violence fulfills in their lives. Far from causing real life violence, the book demonstrates that entertainment violence has important social, political, and psychological roles in modern society. T1 - Blood, guns, and testosteroneaction films, audiences, and a thirst for violence / DA - c2010. CY - Lanham : AU - Donovan, Barna William, CN - ProQuest Ebook Central CN - PN1995.9.A3 PB - Scarecrow Press, Inc., PP - Lanham : PY - c2010. ID - 437154 KW - Action and adventure films KW - Masculinity in motion pictures. KW - Violence in motion pictures. SN - 9780810872639 TI - Blood, guns, and testosteroneaction films, audiences, and a thirst for violence / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=483826 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=483826 ER -