TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gallagher,Mark
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Action figures: men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives 
AV  - PN1995.9.A3 G35 2006eb
U1  - 791.43/655 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Action and adventure films
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Men in motion pictures
KW  - Masculinity in motion pictures
KW  - Heroes in motion pictures
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10135724
ER  -