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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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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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Book Title: Action Figures
Book Subtitle: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives
Authors: Mark Gallagher
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403977236
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Mark Gallagher 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7012-1Published: 22 February 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53169-1Published: 22 February 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-7723-6Published: 04 February 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 234
Topics: Gender Studies, Sociology of Culture, Screen Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies