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Action and Adventure Cinema

Action has established itself as one of the leading genres of contemporary Hollywood

cinema, generating extensive critical debate in the process. This exciting collection

addresses action and adventure from the silent era to the present day, exploring

diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology.

Contributors consider how action might best be deﬁned, how it has developed

historically, and how it works formally. The critical reception and standing of action

and adventure cinema is considered in relation to questions of national culture,

violence and the ‘art’ of cinema.

Themes explored include genre and deﬁnitions; early action, sensation and melo-

drama; authorship; national and transnational action-adventure traditions; action

aesthetics; spectacle and narrative; stars and bodies; class; gender, and race and

ethnicity. Individual chapters discuss action cinema from early melodrama and

serials such as The Hazards of Helen through classic ﬁlms of the 1960s including

Bullitt, The Wild Bunch and The Dirty Dozen up to contemporary blockbusters Die

Hard, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The book

considers the action genre outside Hollywood, in Greece, Italy and Japan, and also

views action and adventure cinema through the work of individual directors including

D.W. Grifﬁth, Akira Kurosawa, Sam Peckinpah and Kathryn Bigelow.

Essays by: Richard Abel, Jennifer M. Bean, Mary Beltrán, Dimitris Eleftheriotis,

Martin Flanagan, Martin Fradley, Barry Keith Grant, Michael Hammond, Christine

Holmlund, Leon Hunt, Mark Jancovich, Susan Jeffords, Peter Krämer, Steve Neale,

Marc O’Day, Lydia Papadimitriou, Stephen Prince, Tico Romao, Ben Singer, Yvonne

Tasker, Linda Ruth Williams, Rachel Williams, Tony Williams, Aylish Wood.

Yvonne Tasker teaches Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia,

UK. She is the author of Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

(Routledge, 1998) and Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema

(Routledge, 1993).

Action and Adventure

Cinema

Edited by

Yvonne Tasker

First published 2004

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.

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utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now

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any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing

from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Action and adventure cinema/edited by Yvonne Tasker.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Adventure ﬁlms – History and criticsim. I. Tasker, Yvonne, 1964–

PN1995.9.A3A28 2004

791.43′655 – dc22

2004001612

ISBN 0-203-64515-4 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-67261-5 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0–415–23506–5 (hbk)

ISBN 0–415–23507–3 (pbk)

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