You might try Yvonne Tasker's *Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema*. Amanda Howell At 06:18 PM 6/5/98 +0100, you wrote: >Does anyone know of genre-studies done on action-films? I've found plenty >on western, noir, gangster, sci-fi, adventure and other related genres, in >addition to (naturaly) writings on screen-violence mentioning classic >action-flicks, but nobody seems to have analysed action as a genre. > >Ingvald Bergsagel > >____________________________________________ >Ingvald Bergsagel - Rostedsgate 9 - 0178 OSLO >home# 22113552 - pager #96819967 > >---- >Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite >http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite > > Dr. Amanda Howell Lecturer, School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies Faculty of Arts Griffith University, Nathan QLD 4111 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61-7-3875 7159 Fax: 61-7-3875 7730 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite