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Gender and action films 1980-2000 : beauty in motion / edited by Steven Gerrard and Renee Middlemost.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Emerald studies in popular culture and gender.
- Emerald studies in popular culture and gender
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--History--20th century.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2023]
- Summary:
- Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 offers insights into the intertwined concepts of gender and action, and how their portrayal developed in the Action Movie genre during the final two decades of the twentieth century. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Gender and Action Films 1980-2000
- Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender
- Gender and Action Films 1980-2000: Beauty in Motion
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Abstract
- References
- 1 - Masculinity and Anxiety
- 1. From Total Recall to Last Action Hero(ine): Sex, Violence and Sharon Stone in the 1990s
- Theory, Method and Approach
- Lori Quaid: Total Recall
- Catherine Tramell: Basic Instinct
- May Munro: The Specialist
- Conclusion
- 2. Gender Spaces in Action Films: The Mad Max Franchise
- Mad Max
- Acknowledgement
- 3. 'I'll Be No Man's Slave and No Man's Whore, and If I Can't Kill Them All, by the Gods They'll Know I've Tried'. Swords, ...
- Beginnings
- Women Warriors
- Barbarian Queens - A Minor Case Study
- 4. Masculinity and the Buddy Cop Film
- Masculinity in Action
- Identity and Career Accomplishment
- Emotional Stability
- Attainment of a Romantic Partner
- 5. Riding the Waves of Crisis: Point Break and Masculinity in 1990s American Action Cinema
- 2 - Transformative Femininity
- 6. Motherhood and Machoism: The Multi-Dimensional Ellen Ripley of James Cameron's Aliens
- 7. Babes on Bikes: Shame, Rape Revenge, and a Woman on a Motorcycle as an Action Heroine
- Babes on Bikes
- Shame (1988 and 1992)
- Mandatory Heterosexuality
- Female Friendship
- Feminist Snap
- References.
- 8. Action Women in Contemporary Colombian Cinema: Female Warriors and Emancipations Within Illegal Armed Organisations
- The Films and Notion of Emancipation
- The Female Warrior in Colombian Cinema
- Victimisers and Anti-Heroines
- Hybrid Tomboys and War Fighters
- Final Thoughts
- 9. 'Sexism in Survival Situations': Reconsidering Gender in Jurassic Park
- Scientists and Screamers: The Women of Jurassic Park
- Hunters and Sex Symbols: The Men of Jurassic Park
- The Over-Sexed Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park
- The Park Is Closed
- Filmography
- 3 - Gender/Politics and 1980s Action
- 10. Sword-Wielding and Gun-Shooting Women: Gender and Post-Colonial Hong Kong in Wong Kar-wai's Films
- Female Drug Dealer and Killer Dispatcher
- Fighting and Travelling Women in Jianghu
- Female Fighters and Post-Colonial Culture
- References:
- Filmography:
- 11. Gender, Ideational Populism and the Eighties Action Cinema
- Ideational Populism and Populist Demagoguery
- Aliens
- The Running Man
- Robocop
- 12. A Rainbow-Coloured Riot on Hollywood Boulevard: Even an Avenging Angel Needs a Little Help From Her Elderly and LGBTQ F ...
- Action Films in the Reagan Era
- Angel's Key Characters
- Angel, an Unlikely 1980s Action Hero
- Rainbow Protagonists: Mae, Solly and Kit
- Interested Parties: Lieutenant Andrews and Collins
- The Antagonist: Billy Boy
- Angel's Final Action Scene
- 4 - Gender and Action Stars
- 13. Arnold's Anima: Gender Subversion in Schwarzenegger's Commando
- Queering Commando
- 'I Can't Believe This Macho Bullshit'.
- 'Fuck You, Asshole!'
- Male-on-Male Gaze
- 'Let Off Some Steam, Bennett!'
- 14. From The One to John Wick: Keanu Reeves and the Action Genre
- Men, Masculinity and the Hegemonic Hierarchy
- Male Bodies and Masculine Action
- Hard and/or Hysterical Bodies
- Masculinity, Mobility and Movement
- Kinetic Keanu
- Beauty in Motion
- 'I Don't Do Stunts, I Do Action': The Reading and Reception of the Agile Action Star
- Selected References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Gerrard, Steven Gender and Action Films 1980-2000
- ISBN:
- 1-80117-506-3
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