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Action figures [electronic resource] : men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives / by Mark Gallagher.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: vi, 234 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/655 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.A3 G35 2006eb
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Contents:
Introduction : popular representations of active masculinity since the late 1960s -- 1. Armchair thrills and the new adventurer -- 2. "I married Rambo" : action, spectacle, and melodrama -- 3. Omega men : late 1960s and early 1970s action heroes -- 4. Airport fiction : the men of mass-market literature -- 5. Restaging heroic masculinity : Jackie Chan and the Hong Kong action film -- Conclusion : the future of active masculinity.
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E-Book Taylor's Library-TU 791.43/655 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) e-book

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-226) and index.

Introduction : popular representations of active masculinity since the late 1960s -- 1. Armchair thrills and the new adventurer -- 2. "I married Rambo" : action, spectacle, and melodrama -- 3. Omega men : late 1960s and early 1970s action heroes -- 4. Airport fiction : the men of mass-market literature -- 5. Restaging heroic masculinity : Jackie Chan and the Hong Kong action film -- Conclusion : the future of active masculinity.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.