Passion and Acceleration: Generic Change in the Action Film

Abstract

Today we find the most celebrated myth of utopian masculinity in the action film. Looking back at two decades of action films we see that masculinity has changed radically: from the passion and sufferings of Rambo to the acceleration and sadism of the Terminator and into the aggravated redundancy of the action computer game.1

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