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Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives
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Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives Hardcover - 2006 - 2006th Edition

by M. Gallagher


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What accounts for the massive global popularity of action films and adventure literature? How do men and women respond to iconic screen stars such as Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve McQueen, and Charlton Heston? Action genres have been Hollywood's most profitable global exports for most of its history, their male heroes the subject of much fascination and derision. Bestselling literary thrillers, from The Hunt for Red October to Into Thin Air, have also contributed markedly to popular understandings of male activity. Action Figures takes stock of action narratives' many appeals and recognizes how contemporary crises of gender identity manifest themselves in popular commercial texts

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  • Title Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives
  • Author M. Gallagher
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 2006th
  • Edition 2006
  • Pages 234
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
  • Date 2006-02-22
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781403970121 / 1403970122
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.54 x 6.06 x 0.72 in (21.69 x 15.39 x 1.83 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Masculinity in motion pictures, Action and adventure films - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005049189
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

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  • Choice, 11/01/2006, Page 489

About the author

MARK GALLAGHER has taught courses in film history and theory, film genres, and Twentieth-century literature at Oberlin College, the University of Oregon, the University of Missouri, Georgia State University and Oklahoma State University, USA. His articles on film and television have appeared in Jump Cut, Velvet Light Trap, the Journal of Popular Film and Television, the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, the Journal of Film and Video, and in other journals and anthologies.
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