These are *my* favourites when it comes to analysis of the contemporary act= ion=20 cinema: Brown, J. A. (1993) Bullets, Buddies and Bad Guys. Journal of Popular Film= and=20 Television. Vol 21, nr 2. Smith, P. (1989) Action Movie Hysteria, or Eastwood Bound. Differences, nr= 3. Tasker, Y. (1993) Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema.= =20 London: Routledge. And, since at least the original poster apparently reads Swedish, I'll add: Lahti, M. (1991) Naturliga muskler - och onaturliga.=20 Filmhaftet, nr 75-76. And, why miss the opportunity to shamlessly plug my own: Dalquist, U. (1993) I Was a Teenage Schwarzenegger: Om actionhjaltar och=20 manligt identitetsarbete. Filmhaftet 83-84. Cheers, Ulf Ulf Dalquist Phone: +46 46 2224266 Dept. of Sociology Fax: +46 46 2224794 Box 114 221 00 Lund SWEDEN E-mail: [log in to unmask] =20 'When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.' Dr. Hunter S. Thompson ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]