The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Action and Adventure as Genre -- Theories of Genre: Author, Icon and Industry -- Theorizing Genre History: Evolution and Industry -- Action: Elements of Genre -- Action and/or Adventure -- Hybrid Genres -- Chapter 2 Action and Adventure: Historical and Cultural Overview -- Cut to the Chase: Action in Early and Silent Cinema -- Action and Adventure in the Studio Era -- World War II and Post‐War Action -- Action and Adventure in the "New Hollywood" -- Action Cinema: Violence, Spectacle -- Chapter 3 Critical Perspectives on Action and Adventure -- Action Aesthetics: Exhilaration and Destruction -- Adventure Cinema: Narrative, Space and Time -- The Cultural Politics of Action -- Race and Action‐Adventure Cinema -- Women in Action: Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Agency -- Postmodern Action -- Chapter 4 Silent Spectacle and Classical Adventure: The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) -- Adventure Spectacle in Silent Hollywood: The Thief of Bagdad (1924) -- Classical Adventure: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 War, Violence and the American Action Hero: Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and Hell is for Heroes (1962) -- John Wayne, Outsider Masculinity and The Sands of Iwo Jima -- Hell is for Heroes: Violence, Heroism and the "Dirty" War Films of the 1960s -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Violence and Urban Action: Dirty Harry (1971) -- Action and the Urban Environment -- The Vigilante Hero: Myths of Redemptive Violence -- Conclusion: Action Masculinity -- Chapter 7 Nostalgic Adventure and Recycled Culture: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) -- Raiders of the Lost Ark: Adventure Cinema and Historical Pastiche -- Pirates of the Caribbean: Theme Park Cinema.

Chapter 8 Action Blockbusters in the 1980s: Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Die Hard (1988) -- Rambo, the Vietnam Veteran and Masculinity in 1980s Action -- Die Hard, the Everyman Hero and Spaces of Action -- Chapter 9 Global and Postmodern Action: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Kill Bill (2003) -- Transnational Action: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon -- Postmodern Action: Kill Bill -- Chapter 10 Espionage Action: The Bourne Identity (2002) and Salt (2010) -- Action Hero as No‐Man: The Bourne Identity -- The Female Spy in Espionage Action: Salt -- Chapter 11 Superhero Action Cinema: X-Men (2000) and The Avengers (2012) -- Mutants and Others: X‐Men -- Superhero Spectacle: The Avengers -- Bibliography -- Index -- EULA.

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