Gender and action films 1980-2000 : beauty in motion

• Other Authors: Gerrard, Steven (Editor), Middlemost, Renée (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
• Series: Emerald studies in popular culture and gender.
• Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Women in motion pictures.; Gender identity in motion pictures.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781801175081
• DOI: 10.1108/9781801175067
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 pages).

Sylvester Stallone's action thriller, First Blood, hit cinema screens in 1982, leading to the cementing of what can be called the Action Movie Canon. With films like Die Hard, Under Siege and Total Recall pioneering post-millennial Action Movies such as Tomb Raider, The Bourne Identity and Atom...