Gallagher, Mark
Action Figures
Table of contents
1. Introduction: Popular Representations of Active Masculinity since the Late 1960s
Mark Gallagher
2. Armchair Thrills and the New Adventurer
Mark Gallagher
3. “I Married Rambo”: Action, Spectacle, and Melodrama
Mark Gallagher
4. Omega Men: Late 1960s and Early 1970s Action Heroes
Mark Gallagher
5. Airport Fiction: The Men of Mass-Market Literature
Mark Gallagher
6. Restaging Heroic Masculinity: Jackie Chan and the Hong Kong Action Film
Mark Gallagher
7. Conclusion: The Future of Active Masculinity
Mark Gallagher
Keywords: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Sociology of Culture, Film and Television Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies
- Author(s)
- Gallagher, Mark
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2006
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 240 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781403977236
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-53169-1
