Title: Home front heroes : the rise of a new Hollywood archetype, 1988-1999 /
Authors: Abele, Elizabeth, 1961-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Heroes in motion pictures; Masculinity in motion pictures.; Motion pictures United States
Abstract: "This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes. The American heroic quest of the past 25 years increasingly has involved a reclamation of home, creating a place for the Hero at the hearth, part of a more intimate community with less restrictive gender and racial boundaries"--
Contents: Introduction -- Love hard: die hard and the home front hero -- Love will show the way -- Home is where the action is -- Serving on multiple fronts: action women -- Integrating the American action hero -- Rebooting action legends -- Hamlet IX: happily ever after -- Living to get it right: home front masculinity as the 21st-century ideal.