"This collection of essays presents a sampling of film and television texts interrogating images of U.S. masculinity. Rather than using "postfeminist" as a definition of contemporary feminism, this collection uses the term to designate the period from the late 1980s on--as a poi…
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 …
"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 in…
"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 in…