Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘Where are we, and how did we get here?’
- 1 Narrative and the action film
- 2 The action body
- 3 The action sequence
- 4 Action women
- 5 Action men
- 6 Race in the action film
- 7 Homosexuality in the action film
- 8 Action cinema after 9/11
- 9 The ‘European connection’
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Television Series
- Index
Filmography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘Where are we, and how did we get here?’
- 1 Narrative and the action film
- 2 The action body
- 3 The action sequence
- 4 Action women
- 5 Action men
- 6 Race in the action film
- 7 Homosexuality in the action film
- 8 Action cinema after 9/11
- 9 The ‘European connection’
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Television Series
- Index
Summary
A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001)
A Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965)
A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964)
A Man Apart (F. Gary Gray, 2003)
Above the law (Andrew Davis, 1988)
Adam's Rib (George Cukor, 1949)
Aeon Flux (Karyn Kusama, 2005)
Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997)
Alexander (Oliver Stone, 2004)
Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut (Oliver Stone, DVD 2007)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese, 1974)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
Alien 3 (David Fincher, 1992)
Alien: Resurrection (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997)
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
Along Came a Spider (Lee Tamahori, 2001)
An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky, 1978)
An Unseen Enemy (D.W. Griffith, 1912)
Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998)
Assault on Precinct 13 (Jean-François Richet, 2005)
Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
Bad Boys (Michael Bay, 1995)
Bad Boys II (Michael Bay, 2003)
Banlieue 13/District 13 (Pierre Morel, Fr 2004)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005)
Battle for Haditha (Nick Broomfield, 2007)
Behind Enemy Lines (John Moore, 2001)
Beowulf (Robert Zemeckis, 2007)
Big Bad Mama (Steve Carver, 1974)
Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders, 2009)
Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, 2001)
Black Rain (Ridley Scott, 1989)
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- Contemporary Action Cinema , pp. 203 - 210Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2011