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INTRODUCTION: ACTION AND ADVENTURE CINEMA Yvonne Tasker Part I History, Criticism and Style 1. 'TRAUMA THRILLS': NOTES ON EARLY ACTION CINEMA Jennifer M. Bean 2. THE 'CULTURE WAR' OF SENSATIONAL MELODRAMA, 1910-1914 Richard Abel 3. "CHILD OF COMMERCE! BASTARD OF ART!": EARLY FILM MELODRAMA Ben Singer 4. ACTION-ADVENTURE AS HOLLYWOOD GENRE Steve Neale 5. DWIGHT MACDONALD AND THE HISTORICAL EPIC Mark Jancovich Part II Theorising Action Aesthetics 6. 'GET READY FOR RUSH HOUR': THE CHRONOTOPE IN ACTION Martin Flanagan 7. THE COLLAPSE OF REALITY AND ILLUSION IN THE MATRIX Aylish Wood 8. GUNS AND GAS: INVESTIGATING THE POST-CLASSICAL CAR CHASE FILM Tico Romao 9. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN'S 'SPECIAL AFFECT' Michael Hammond Part III Gender, Stars, Bodies 10. READY FOR ACTION: G.I. JANE, DEMI MOORE'S BODY AND THE FEMALE COMBAT MOVIE Linda Ruth Williams 11. MÁS MACHA: THE NEW LATINA ACTION HERO Mary Beltrán 12. BEAUTY IN MOTION: GENDER, SPECTACLE AND ACTION BABE CINEMA Marc O'Day 13. BREAKDOWN: WHITE MASCULINITY, CLASS AND US ACTION- ADVENTURE FILMS Susan Jeffords 14. MAXIMUS MELODRAMATICUS: MASCULINITY, MASOCHISM AND WHITE MALE PARANOIA IN CONTEMPORARY HOLLYWOOD CINEMA Martin Fradley 15. THE FAMILY IN ACTION Yvonne Tasker Part IV Nation, Ethnicity and Stardom 16. THE HONG KONG/HOLLYWOOD CONNECTION: STARDOM AND SPECTACLE IN TRANSNATIONAL ACTION CINEMA Leon Hunt 17. EUROPEANS IN ACTION Christine Holmlund 18. GREEK WAR FILM AS MELODRAMA: WOMEN, FEMALE STARS AND THE NATION AS VICTIM Lydia Papadimitriou 19. SPAGHETTI WESTERN, GENRE CRITICISM AND NATIONAL CINEMA: RE-DEFINING THE FRAME OF REFERENCE Dimitris Eleftheriotis Part V Action, Authorship and Industry 20. GENRE AND VIOLENCE IN THE WORK OF KUROSAWA AND PECKINPAH Stephen Prince 21. THE DIRTY DOZEN: THE CONTRADICTORY NATURE OF SCREEN VIOLENCE Tony Williams 22. "IT'S AIMED AT KIDS - THE KID IN EVERYBODY": GEORGE LUCAS, STAR WARS AND CHILDREN'S ENTERTAINMENT Peter Krämer 23. MAN'S FAVOURITE SPORT? THE ACTION FILMS OF KATHRYN BIGELOW Barry Keith Grant 24. 'THEY CALL ME ACTION WOMAN': THE MARKETING OF MIMI LEDER AS A NEW CONCEPT IN THE HIGH CONCEPT 'ACTION' FILM Rachel Williams
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Adventure films History and criticism