The topic of race and buddy films has been discussed as part of a
book-length study on "musculinity" (among other things): see Yvonne
Tasker's *Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema*
(Routledge, 1993).
Happy hunting.
Edward R. O'Neill
UCLA
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