Blood, guns, and testosterone
Subtitle: action films, audiences, and a thirst for violence
By: Barna William Donovan.
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810872622; 9780810872639
Subjects: Action and adventure films -- History and criticism; Violence in motion pictures; Masculinity in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The controversies, the crisis, and the films. The history of a modern crisis; title: The audience matters; title: The modern American action film; title: The audience. The need for speed : the appeal of fast-paced story telling; title: Mirror image : finding a personal, social and moral identity in the action film; title: Man talk : managing the modern male identity (crisis) in the genre; title: The opposition : men with a challenge managing a well-deserved 'crisis'; title: What women want : women talk about modern masculinity in the action film; title: Bloody fun : the appeal of watching violence; title: Conclusions: I'll be back? the future of action and masculinity in popular culture.