Action figures men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives /
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| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Palgrave Macmillan,
c2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : popular representations of active masculinity since the late 1960s
- 1. Armchair thrills and the new adventurer
- 2. "I married Rambo" : action, spectacle, and melodrama
- 3. Omega men : late 1960s and early 1970s action heroes
- 4. Airport fiction : the men of mass-market literature
- 5. Restaging heroic masculinity : Jackie Chan and the Hong Kong action film
- Conclusion : the future of active masculinity.