Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action MovieAn authoritative and entertaining history of the action film |
Contents
A Little Violence Never Hurt Anyone | xvii |
1971 | 7 |
The Laws Crazy The Vigilante and Other Myths | 19 |
Automatons Rise of the Killing Machines | 56 |
Enter the Fists The Body as the Weapon | 92 |
Into the Jungle Out of the Wasteland Action in the Wild | 121 |
Blowing Up All Those Familiar Places Terror and the Confined Arena | 155 |
Unmitigated Disasters Old Formulas and the New Spectacle | 186 |
Tomorrows Heroes Today Action Meets the Fantastic | 240 |
Excelsior March of the Superheroes | 282 |
Sifting Through the Rubble | 328 |
Notes | 341 |
Index | 367 |
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Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie Eric Lichtenfeld No preview available - 2004 |