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 ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]