Action speaks louder : violence, spectacle, and the American action movie
- Title
- Action speaks louder : violence, spectacle, and the American action movie / Eric Lichtenfeld ; foreword by Richard Slotkin.
- Published by
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xxi, 313 p. : ill.; cm.
- Subject
- 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.
- Call number
- MFL 05-1116
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-303) and index.
- Author
- Lichtenfeld, Eric.
- Title
- Action speaks louder : violence, spectacle, and the American action movie / Eric Lichtenfeld ; foreword by Richard Slotkin.
- Imprint
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-303) and index.
- LCCN
- 2004048061
- ISBN
- 0275980545 (alk. paper)
- Research call number
- MFL 05-1116