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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Eric Lichtenfeld |
| ISBN: | 0275980545 9780275980542 |
| OCLC Number: | 54953146 |
| Description: | xxi, 313 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : a little violence never hurt anyone -- Prelude : 1971 -- "The law's crazy" : the vigilante and other myths -- Automatons : hard-bodies and world pacification -- 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. |
| Responsibility: | Eric Lichtenfeld ; foreword by Richard Slotkin. |
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