These are *my* favourites when it comes to analysis of the contemporary act=
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cinema:
 
Brown, J. A. (1993) Bullets, Buddies and Bad Guys. Journal of   Popular Film=
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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.=
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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
 
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