A Companion to the Action Film

Origins Of The Action Film: Types, Tropes, And Techniques In Early Film History / Kyle Barrowman -- A Genre Of Its Own: From Westerns, To Vigilantes, To Pure Action / James Kendrick -- The New Dominance: Action-fantasy Hybrids And The New Superhero In 2000s -- Action Cinema / Lisa Purse -- Around The World In Action / Mark Gallagher -- The Perpetual Motion Aesthetic Of Action Cinema / Nick Jones -- Asian Action Cinema And Its Influence On Hollywood / Barna William Donovan -- Comedy In Action / Cynthia M. King -- The Composite Body: Action Stars And Embodiment In The Digital Age / Drew Ayers -- Translating The Panel: Remediating A Comics Aesthetic In Contemporary Action -- Cinema / Joshua Wucher -- Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah, And The Action Concept Of Eastern Westerns / Stephen Teo -- The Martial Arts Supremacy: Action Film And Fight Choreography / Paul Bowman -- All Guts And No Glory: Stuntwork And Stunt Performers In Hollywood History / Lauren Steimer -- Hollywood's Hard Bodies: The Stars Who Made The Action Films Famous / Susan Jeffords -- The Strange Case Of Carlos Ray Norris: Reactionary Masculinity And Its Imaginary Discontents / Tony Williams -- New Action Realism: Claustrophobia, Immediacy, And Mediation In The Films Of Kathryn Bigelow, Paul Greengrass, And Michael Mann / Vincent M. Gaine -- Postmodernism In Action Movies / Micheal Mcalexander -- The 1980s Action Film And The Politics Of Urban Expulsions / Jon Kraszewski -- Infinite Crisis: Intertextuality And Watchmen / Matt Yockey -- Blowing Up The War Film: Powerlessness And The Crisis Of The Action-image In The Hurt Locker And Inglourious Basterds / Paul Gormley -- X-men/action Men: Performing Masculinities In Superhero And Science-fiction -- Cinema / Yvonne Tasker -- Unlikely Action Heroine: Melissa Mccarthy Challenges Bodily Ideals In Modern Action Film / Jeffrey A. Brown -- I Am Become Death: Managing Massacres And Constructing The Female Teen -- Leader In The 100 / Rikke Schubart -- A Digital Nature: Lucy Takes Technology For A Ride / Lorrie Palmer -- I Feel The Need, The Need For Speed: Prosthetics, Agency Panic, And The High-tech Action Film / Steffen Hantke. Edited By James Kendrick. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Hoboken, N.j. Available Via World Wide Web.