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Action speaks louder : violence, spectacle, and the American action movie
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Action speaks louder : violence, spectacle, and the American action movie

Author: Eric Lichtenfeld
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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