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Reference Literature to Action Film / Disaster Movie

  • Fred Pfeil: "From Pillar to Postmodern: Race, Class, and Gender in the Male Rampage Film." In: J.Lewis (Ed.): The New American Cinema, Durham 1998, pp.146-186
  • Mark Gallagher: "I Married Rambo: Spectacle and Melodrama in the Hollywood Action Film." In: C.Sharrett (Ed.): Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media, Detroit 1999
  • Karen Schneider: "With Violence if Necessary: Rearticulating the Family in the Contemporary Action-Thriller." In: Journal of Popular Film & TV 27:1 (1999), pp.2-11
  • Geoff King: Spectacular Narratives. Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster. London 2000
  • Elizabeth Ezra: "Apocalypse Then. French Disaster Films of the 1920s." In: Studies in French Cinema 1:1 (2001)
  • Steven Keane: Disaster Movies. The Cinema of Catastrophe. London 2001
  • Lalitha Gopalan: Cinema of Interruptions. Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema. London 2002
  • Despina Kakoudaki: "Spectacles of History: Race Relations, Melodrama, and the Science Fiction/Disaster Film." In: Camera Obscura Nr.50 (2002), pp.109-153
  • Rainer Rother: "Mit Verlusten ist zu rechnen. Notizen zum amerikanischen Actionfilm." In: J.Felix (Hg.): Die Postmoderne im Kino, Marburg: Schüren 2002, pp.268-282
  • Manfred Hobsch: Das grosse Lexikon der Katastrophenfilme. Berlin 2003
  • Georg Seeßlen: "Eiskalte Engel. Weibliche Stars im Actionfilm." In: epd-Film 7/2003, pp.22-27
  • Wheeler Winston Dixon: Visions of the Apocalypse. Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema. London 2003
  • Eric Lichtenfeld: Action Speaks Louder. Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie. New York: Praeger, 2004
  • Yvonne Tasker (Ed.): Action and Adventure Cinema. London & New York 2004
  • Mary C.Beltrán: "The New Hollywood Racelessness: Only the Fast, Furious, (and Multiracial) Will Survive." In: Cinema Journal 44:2 (2005), pp.50-67
  • Ken Feil: Dying for a Laugh. Disaster Movies and the Camp Imagination. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 2005
  • Carla Hopfner: Lara Croft und Charlie's Angels - neue Heldinnen im Actionfilm. Wien: Braumüller, 2005
  • Jan Distelmeyer: "Schiffbrüche und andere Kleinigkeiten: Der Katastrophenfilm und die Geburt des Blockbusterkinos." In: epd-Film 7/06, pp.20-25
  • Mark Gallagher: Action Figures. Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives. New York: Palgrave, 2006
  • Meaghan Morris / Siu-Leung Li / Stephen Chan Ching-kiu (Eds.): Hong Kong Connections. Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema. Durham: Duke UP, 2006
see also:

OV: Genre

Thriller

Adventure Movie

War Film

James Bond Movies

Spectacle

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