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9780786434039 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 30, 2008, cover price $29.95
Product Description: This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on the representation of black femininity...read more
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9780252033407, titled ""Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films" | Univ of Illinois Pr, August 4, 2008, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on the representation of black femininity.
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9780252075483 | Univ of Illinois Pr, August 4, 2008, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on the representation of black femininity.
For more than 30 years, the action movie has been the film genre that most represents Hollywood to the world, and represents the world to American audiences. Still, the action film has never received the critical attention it deserves. Studying its various trends and visual excesses, Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie traces the genre's evolution and sources to reveal how it has come to assume its place of prominence in American identity and American life. With scores of in-depth case studiesâincluding films such as Dirty Harry, Death Wish, RoboCop, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Armageddon, and Spider-Manâauthor Eric Lichtenfeld draws on film analysis, production histories, critical responses, studio marketing, original filmmaker interviews, and considerations of the genre's weaponry itself.No previous book has taken on this subject with such rigor, and few genre studies of any kind synthesize critical reaction, studio marketing and advertising, and filmmaker interviews. Moreover, the action genre has never been studied with the dedication that critics have devoted to other genres, such as the Western, film noir, and screwball and romantic comedies. Action Speaks Louder provides a fresh perspective on the history and craft of a category of films that are among cinema's most popular, ones that certainly represent the movies' most primal form of fun.
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9780275980542 | Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 2004, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: For more than 30 years, the action movie has been the film genre that most represents Hollywood to the world, and represents the world to American audiences.
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9780819568014 | Rev exp edition (Wesleyan Univ Pr, April 27, 2007), cover price $29.95
Product Description: 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...read more
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9781403970121 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 5, 2006, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: What accounts for the massive global popularity of action films and adventure literature?
Product Description: Here for the first time is a book that defines the historical adventure movie, one of the most enduring, ever-popular, and mythically significant American film genres. Despite the popularity of historical adventure from the early days of filmmaking, never before has this Hollywood genre been analyzed in a comprehensive manner...read more
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9780878055975 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, November 1, 1993, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Here for the first time is a book that defines the historical adventure movie, one of the most enduring, ever-popular, and mythically significant American film genres.
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9780878055982 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, November 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Here for the first time is a book that defines the historical adventure movie, one of the most enduring, ever-popular, and mythically significant American film genres.
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