Action speaks louder: violence, spectacle, and the American action movie

Abstract

Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction: A Little Violence Never Hurt Anyone Prelude: 1971 Law's Crazy: The Vigilante and Other Myths Automatons: Hard Bodies and World Pacification Enter the Fists: The Body as the Weapon Into the Jungle, Out of the Wasteland: Action in the Wild Blowing Up All Those Familiar Places: Terror and the Confined Arena Unmitigated Disasters: Old Formulas and the New Spectacle Tomorrow's Heroes Today: Action Meets the Fantastic Excelsior!: March of the Superheroes Conclusion: Sifting through the Rubble Endnotes