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A Companion to the Action Film
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Editor(s):
James Kendrick
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February 08 2019
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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9781119100744
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9781119100492
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February 08 2019
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10.1002/9781119100744
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Book chapters
pp. i
Front Matter
pp. 1
Introduction
pp. 9
Origins of the Action Film
pp. 35
A Genre of Its Own
pp. 55
The New Dominance
pp. 74
Around the World in Action
pp. 97
The Perpetual Motion Aesthetic of Action Cinema
pp. 118
Asian Action Cinema and Its Influence on Hollywood
pp. 140
Comedy in Action
pp. 165
The Composite Body
pp. 187
Translating the Panel
pp. 207
Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah, and the Action Concept of Eastern Westerns
pp. 227
The Martial Arts Supremacy
pp. 241
All Guts and No Glory
pp. 256
Hollywood's Hard Bodies
pp. 270
The Strange Case of Carlos Ray Norris
pp. 289
New Action Realism
pp. 307
Postmodernism in Action Movies
pp. 325
The 1980s Action Film and the Politics of Urban Expulsions
pp. 345
Infinite Crisis
pp. 364
Blowing Up the War Film
pp. 381
X-Men/Action Men
pp. 398
Unlikely Action Heroine
pp. 417
“I Am Become Death”
pp. 439
A Digital Nature
pp. 456
“I Feel the Need, the Need for Speed”
pp. 473
Index
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