Donovan, Barna William, 1970-
Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2010.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Acknowledgments — Introduction: Violence and much more — Controversies, The Crisis, And The Films: — History of a modern crisis — Audience matters — Modern American action film — Audience: — Need for speed: the appeal of fast-paced story telling — Mirror image: finding a personal, social, and moral identity in the action film — Man talk: managing the modern male identity (crisis) in the genre — Opposition: men with a challenge-managing a well-deserved crisis — What women want: women talk about modern masculinity in the action film — Bloody fun: the appeal of watching violence — Conclusions: I’ll be back? the future of action and masculinity in popular culture — Bibliography — Index — About the author.
• Overview: Blood, Guns, and Testosterone: Action Films, Audiences, and a Thirst for Violence is a study of the modern action film as a symbolic art of masculinity and a study of this genre’s fans who discuss the functions film violence fulfills in their lives. Far from causing real life violence, the book demonstrates that entertainment violence has important social, political, and psychological roles in modern society.

Subjects:

• Action and adventure films — History and criticism.
• Violence in motion pictures.
• Masculinity in motion pictures.

Requested by Kurpiers, R