Bibliografie des fantastischen Films / Bibliography of Fantastic Film
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Bibliografie des fantastischen Films / Bibliography of Fantastic Film
Bibliografie des Fantastischen Films
Bibliography of Fantastic Film
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#1
Abbott, Stacey: "Enough of the action, let’s get back to dancing’: Joss Whedon directs Angel. In: Reading Joss Whedon. Edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery. - Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press 2014. (= Television and popular culture.) pp. 119-133.
Index:
Whedon, Joss
Angel (TV)
Tanz ~ Dance
Action ~ Action

#2
Abrahams, H.: Spielbergs Geheimformel für Actionfilme. In: Film und Ton Magazin 27. 1981. No. ?N. [December] p. ?P.
Index:
Spielberg, Steven
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982)
Action ~ Action

#3
Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004.
Reviews:
Bell-Metereau, Rebecca: [untitled.] In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video 25. 2008. No. 1. [?D] pp. 72-76.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#4
Action auf dem Dia: Die Bilder lernen laufen beim Duell im All. In: Geheim. Hrsg. von Dirk Manthey und Jörg Altendorf. Autoren: Christian Hellmann, Artur Jung, Andreas Kern und Richard Pleuger. - Hamburg: Kino Verlag 1990. (= Cinema Filmbuch.) pp. 55-60.
Description:
On the special effects for Peter Hyam’s Outland.
Index:
Hyams, Peter
Outland (1981)
Action ~ Action
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects

#5
Action chicks: New images of tough women in popular culture. Edited by Sherrie A. Inness. - Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2004.
Reviews:
Farkas, Carol-Ann: [untitled] In: Journal of Popular Culture 38. 2005. No. 3. [?D] pp. 585-586.
Maher, Jennifer: [untitled.] In: College Literature 34. 2007. No. 3. [?D] pp. 193-201.
Index:
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#6
Action Fighters. - Hamburg: VP-Video-Zeitschriften-Verlag 1991. (= Ein Filmbuch von Video plus.)
Index:
Action ~ Action

#7
Action painting: Intervista a Quentin Tarantino. In: Kill baby kill! Il cinema di Mario Bava. A cura di Gabriele Acerbo e Roberto Pisoni. - Roma: Un mondo a parte 2007. p. ?P.
Index:
Bava, Mario
Tarantino, Quentin
Kunst ~ Arts, The
Action ~ Action

#8
Action / spectacle cinema. Edited by José Arroyo. - London: British Film Institute 1999. (= A Sight and Sound Reader.)
Index:
Action ~ Action

#9
Action TV: Tough guys, smooth operators and foxy chicks. Edited by Bill Osgerby and Anna Gough-Yates. - London; New York: Routledge, 2001.
Reviews:
Beltran, Mary C.: In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video 20. 2003. No. 4. [?D] pp. 281-285.
Lavery, David: [untitled] In: Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 79. 2002. No. 2. [?D] pp. 467-468.
Mogilevich, Mariana: [untitled] In: Film Quarterly 57. 2003. No. 1. [Fall] pp. 38-39.
Matthews, Peter: [untitled.] In: Sight and Sound NS 12. 2002. No. 5. [May] p. 30.
Index:
Fernsehen ~ Television
Action ~ Action

#10
Action und Erzählkunst: Die Filme von Steven Spielberg. Hrsg. von Helmut Korte und Werner Faulstich. - Frankfurt/M.: Fischer 1987. (= Fischer Cinema / Fischer Taschenbuch 4476.)
Reviews:
Jung, Uli: [untitled] In: Medienwissenschaft 1988. No. 2. pp. 199-201.
Index:
Spielberg, Steven
Action ~ Action

#11
Action! Artefakt, Ereignis, Erlebnis. Hrsg. von Ingrid Tomkowiak, Brigitte Frizzoni und Manuel Trummer. - Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017. (= Kulturen populärer Unterhaltung und Vergnügung 4.)
Index:
Action ~ Action

#12
Action! Interviews with directors from classical Hollywood to contemporary Iran. Edited by Garry Morris. Foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum. - London; New York: Anthem Press 2009.
Index:
Iran ~ Iran
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Action ~ Action

#13
Der Actionfilm. Von Holger Heck [et al.]. - Sonnenbühl-Uhdingen: Dittmar 1986. (= Video-Shop 5.)
Index:
Action ~ Action

#14
Actionkino: Moderne Klassiker des populären Films. Hrsg. von Ingo Irsigler, Gerrit Lembke und Willem Strank. - Berlin: Bertz und Fischer 2014. (= Deep Focus 19.)
Reviews:
Ritzer, Ivo: [untitled.] In: Medienwissenschaft 2014. No. 4. pp. 416-419.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#15
Allison, Anne: Fierce flesh: Sexy schoolgirls in the action fantasy of Sailor Moon. In: Allison, Anne: Millennial monsters: Japanese toys and the global imagination. Foreword by Gary Cross. - Berkeley, California: University of California Press 2006. (= Asia-local studies / global themes 13.) p. ?P.
Index:
Sato, Junichi
Bishôjo senshi Sailor Moon / Sailor Moon (TV)
Spielzeuge ~ Toys*
Pädagogik ~ Paedagogy
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Action ~ Action
Monster ~ Monster
Japan ~ Japan

#16
Alonso-Villa, Cristina: Frauen und Action: Hollywood-Action-Heldinnen und das Vergnügen der Zuschauerinnen. In: Action! Artefakt, Ereignis, Erlebnis. Hrsg. von Ingrid Tomkowiak, Brigitte Frizzoni und Manuel Trummer. - Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017. (= Kulturen populärer Unterhaltung und Vergnügung 4.) pp. 89 ff.
Index:
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#17
Amann, Frank / Kaltenecker, Siegfried / Keiper, Jürgen: Action! Einige Thesen für eine andere Auseinandersetzung mit Actionfilmen. In: Medienwissenschaft 1998. No. 2. pp. 149-154.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#18
Anderson, Aaron: Action in motion: Kinesthesia in martial arts films. In: Jump Cut 1998. No. 42. [December] pp. 1-11, 83.
Description:
On the representation of the body in martial arts films.
Index:
Körper ~ Bodies
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Action ~ Action

#19
Andris, Silke / Frederick, Ursula: Why women willing to fight? An introduction. In: Women willing to fight: The fighting woman in film. Edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick. - Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2007.
Index:
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#20
Arjet, Robert: Gunplay: Men, guns, and action films in the United States. - Druid Hills, Georgia: Emory University, Ph.D. 2002. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 62. 2002. No. 11. (May) p. 3831.]
Description:
On the relation between guns, firearms, and masculinity. Discusses especially the representation of violence and the underlying homosocial subtexts of the related films.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Männer ~ Men
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#21
Armstrong, Richard [et al.]: The Rough Guide to film: A-Z of directors and their movies: The essential guide to a world of cinema. - London; New York: Rough Guides / New York: Penguin Putnam 2007.
Description:
Includes essays on the action and the horror film.
Index:
Horror ~ Horror
Action ~ Action

#22
Arnold, Frank: Der Knochenjäger: Altmodisches Genrestück von Actionspezialist Philip Noyce. In: EPD Film 17. 2000. No. 2. [February] pp. 48-49.
Description:
On The Bone Collector.
Index:
Noyce, Phillip
Bone Collector, The (1999)
Action ~ Action

#23
Arnold, Frank: Ehrenrettung für zwei Actionfilme: Michael Bays Die Insel und Wes Cravens Verflucht auf DVD. In: EPD Film 23. 2006. No. 3. [March] p. 53.
Index:
Bay, Michael
Craven, Wes
Island, The (2005)
Cursed (2005)
DVD ~ DVD
Action ~ Action

#24
Arnold, Frank: Halb tot: Actionfilm mit Steven Seagal als Undercover-Cop. In: EPD Film 20. 2003. No. 6. [June] p. 40.
Description:
On Don Michael Paul’s Half Past Dead.
Index:
Paul, Don Michael
Seagal, Steven
Half Past Dead (2002)
Action ~ Action

#25
Arnold, Frank: Kiss of the Dragon: Ein Actionthriller nach dem Baukastensystem. In: EPD Film 18. 2001. No. 11. [November] pp. 48-49.
Index:
Nahon, Chris
Kiss of the Dragon (2001)
Thriller ~ Thriller
Action ~ Action

#26
Arnold, Timothy: The Last Man in America: Filling the gap in American film. - Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky, Ph.D. 2000. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 61. 2001. No. 7. (January) p. 2708.]
Description:
On bulwarks of patriarchy in American film, especially in the action genre.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Männer ~ Men
Action ~ Action

#27
Arnu, Titus: "Gegengift zur Dauer-Action". In: Der Spiegel 54. 2000. No. 9. [February 28] p. 128.
Description:
Interview with Teletubbies co-founder Anne Wood.
Index:
Wood, Anne
Teletubbies (TV)
Action ~ Action

#28
Askari, Brent: Jaws: Beyond action. In: Creative Screenwriting 3. 1996. No. 1. [Summer] pp. 31-36.
Description:
On the script for the Spielberg classic.
Index:
Spielberg, Steven
Jaws (1975)
Action ~ Action

#29
Aufenanger, Stefan: Zum Verhältnis von Märchen und Actionfilm. In: Audio Visuell 1993. No. 9. [?D] pp. 101-112.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Märchen ~ Fairy Tales

#30
Aufenanger, Stefan: Zum Verhältnis von Märchen und Actionfilmen. In: Märchen in visuellen Medien. Redaktion: Hiltraut Hochstein. - Frankfurt/Main: Staatliche Landesbildstelle Hessen 1993. (= Audio Visuell 9.) pp. 101-112.
Description:
Includes a bibliography.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Märchen ~ Fairy Tales

#31
Bachmair, Ben: Gewaltdarstellungen - Schlüssel zur Erklärung von Subjektivität. In: TV Diskurs 1999. No. 8. [?D] pp. 60-69.
Description:
Discusses also the action film.
Index:
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#32
Badt, Karin Luisa: Caché (Hidden): Michael Haneke. In: Action! Interviews with directors from classical Hollywood to contemporary Iran. Edited by Garry Morris. Foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum. - London; New York: Anthem Press 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Haneke, Michael
Caché (2005)
Action ~ Action

#33
Bakke, Gretchen: Dead White men: An essay on the changing dynamics of race in US action cinema. In: Anthropological Quarterly 83. 2010. No. 2. [?D] pp. 400-428.
Index:
Ethnie ~ Ethnicity
Action ~ Action

#34
Barber, Stephen: The films of the Vienna Action Group. In: Cinema inferno: Celluloid explosions from the cultural margins. Edited by Robert G. Weiner and John Cline. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Scarecrow Press 2010. p. ?P.
Index:
Wien ~ Vienna
Action ~ Action
Experimentalfilme ~ Experimental Films
Exploitation ~ Exploitation

#35
Barra, Allen: A road warrior is still on a roll: Twenty years ago George Miller’s post-apocalyptic Mad Max roared in and shook up the action genre. In: New York Times, August 15, 1999. sec. 2. p. AR9(N), AR9(L), col. 1pp.
Index:
Miller, George
Mad Max (1979)
Krieg ~ War
Religion: Apokalypse ~ Religion: Apocalypse
Action ~ Action

#36
Bauer, Matthias: Aus dem eigenen Körper heraus - und in einen anderen hineinfahren: Immersion, Ekstase und Inkarnation im Actionthriller Face/Off. In: Ekstase. Hrsg. von Thomas Koebner. - München: edition text + kritik 2012. (= Projektionen: Studien zu Natur, Kultur und Film 6.) pp. 161 ff.
Index:
Wu Su-Yum [Pseudonym: Woo, John]
Face/Off (1997)
Thriller ~ Thriller
Körper ~ Bodies
Action ~ Action
Religion ~ Religion

#37
Bean, Jennifer M.: "Trauma thrills": Notes on early action cinema. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Thriller ~ Thriller
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#38
Beck, Martin: "A satanic action comedy": El Dia de la Bestia. In: Splatting Image 1996. No. 25. [March] pp. 56-57.
Index:
de la Iglesia, Alex
día de la bestia, El (1995)
Religion: Teufel ~ Religion: Devil
Humor ~ Humor
Action ~ Action

#39
Becker, Beate / Janßen, S. / Rullmann, A. / Schneider, B.: Die neuen Zeichentrickserien: Immer wieder Action. In: Neue Helden für die Kleinen: Das (un)heimliche Programm des Fernsehens. Hrsg. von Ingrid Paus-Haase. - Münster: Lit Verlag 1991. pp. 152-?P.
Index:
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action
Fernsehen ~ Television
Animation ~ Animation

#40
Beier, Lars-Olav: Mordsspaß im Schlachthof. In: Der Spiegel 60. 2006. No. 30. [July 24] pp. 128-130.
Description:
On the bomm of torture in contemporary action and horror film. Discusses, among others, Eli Roth’s Hostel and the two Saw films.
Index:
Roth, Eli
Wan, James
Bousman, Darren Lynn
Hostel (2005)
Saw (2004)
Saw II (2005)
Mord ~ Murder
Horror ~ Horror
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#41
Beier, Lars-Olav: Rette die Welt, wer kann. In: kulturSpiegel 2002. No. 10. [October] pp. 24-28.
Description:
On new action pastiches in the tradition of the James Bond films. Discusses especially Rob Cohen’s XXX, Jay Roach’s Austin Powers in Goldmember and the new Bond adventure Die Another Day by Lee Tamahori.
Index:
Cohen, Rob
Roach, Jay
Tamahori, Lee
James Bond (Filmreihe)
XXX (2002)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Die Another Day (2002)
James Bond ~ James Bond
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#42
Beier, Lars-Olav: Sturmfreie Bude. In: Der Spiegel 67. 2013. No. 24. [June 10] p. 126.
Description:
On two action films in which the American president comes under siege: Antoine Fuqua’s Olympus Has Fallen and Roland Emmerich’s White House Down.
Index:
Fuqua, Antoine
Emmerich, Roland
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
White House Down (2013)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Politik ~ Politics
Action ~ Action

#43
Beier, Lars-Olav / Wolf, Martin: "Ich hatte Todesangst". In: Der Spiegel 61. 2007. No. 26. [June 25] pp. 160-164.
Description:
Interview with Bruce Willis on the action genre in general and especially on his return as "John McClane" in Len Wiseman’s Live Free or Die Hard.
Index:
Willis, Bruce
Wiseman, Len
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Tod ~ Death
Angst ~ Fear
Action ~ Action

#44
Bellof, Dennis: Drama vs. Action. In: EPD Film 28. 2011. No. 2. [February] p. 11.
Description:
Obituary for Peter Yates.
Index:
Yates, Peter
Action ~ Action

#45
Beltrán, Mary C.: The new Hollywood racelessness: Only the fast, furious (and multiracial) will survive. In: Cinema Journal 44. 2005. No. 2. [Winter] pp. 50 ff.
Description:
On the mixed-race personnel in "multiculti" action films.
Index:
Ethnie ~ Ethnicity
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Action ~ Action

#46
Beltrán, Mary: Más macha: The new latina action hero. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Lateinamerika ~ Latin America
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#47
Bernauer, Judith / Deutsch, Cornelia / Eckstein, Kirstin: Kampf für Liebe und Gerechtigkeit: Sailor Moon - ein Action-Cartoon für Mädchen. In: Kinder- und Jugendmedien in Österreich. Hrsg. von Ingrid Paus-Haase, Kirstin Eckstein und Sebastian Bollig. - Wien: ?V 2001. pp. 68-86.
Description:
On the animated TV series by Junichi Sato.
Index:
Sato, Junichi
Bishôjo senshi Sailor Moon / Sailor Moon (TV)
Österreich ~ Austria
Jugend ~ Youth
Fernsehen ~ Television
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#48
Die besten Actionfilme. Hrsg. von Dirk Jasper. - München: Rossipaul 1994.
Description:
CD-ROM edition includig a companion text.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#49
Binotto, Thomas: Je größer der Held, desto unsterblicher. In: Zoom 49. 1997. No. 10. [October] pp. 19-21.
Description:
On hero figures in action films.
Index:
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#50
Biodrowski, Steve: Futuristic musclemen. In: Cinefantastique 23. 1992. No. 1. [August] pp. 12-13.
Description:
On the film Universal Soldier and on the rivalty between action actors Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren on the one hand and genre master Arnold Schwarzenegger on the other.
Index:
Emmerich, Roland
Van Damme, Jean Claude
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Universal Soldier (1992)
Futurismus ~ Futurism
Action ~ Action

#51
Blumenstock, Peter: Türkploitation. In: Splatting Image 1996. No. 26. [June] pp. 15-18.
Description:
On Turkish horror and action films.
Index:
Exploitation ~ Exploitation
Action ~ Action
Türkei ~ Turkey (Country)
Horror ~ Horror

#52
Bogarosh, Nichole A.: The princess, the damsel, and the sidekick: Women as the "other" in popular films (2000-2011). - Pullman, Washington: Washington State University, Ph.D. 2013. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 75. 2014. No. 2. [August] p. ?P.]
Description:
Includes three major chapters: "Heterosexism in animated films", "Victimhood in action film" and "Leadership as a male perogative in science fiction / fantasy film".
Index:
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Männer ~ Men
Frauen ~ Women
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#53
Borcsa, Maria / Charlton, Michael: Mediengewalt und Medienpädagogik: Wie Jugendliche mit Actionfilmen umgehen. In: Televizion 8. 1995. No. 2. [?D] pp. 36-39.
Index:
Pädagogik ~ Paedagogy
Action ~ Action
Jugend ~ Youth
Gewalt ~ Violence

#54
Borrmann, Jennifer: Suicide Squad: Knallbunte Comic-Action mit allzu glättender Breitenwirksamkeit. In: Film-Dienst 69. 2016. No. 17. [August 18] p. 46.
Index:
Ayer, David
Suicide Squad (2016)
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Action ~ Action

#55
Borrmann, Jennifer: What Happened to Monday? Actionreiche Science-Fiction-Fabel über Siebenlinge. In: Film-Dienst 70. 2017. No. 21. [October 12] p. 41.
Index:
Wirkola, Tommy
Seven Sisters (2017)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Action ~ Action

#56
Bottéon, Christophe: Un festival sous le feu de l’action. In: Cinéma [Paris] 1997. No. 586. [April] pp. 12-13.
Description:
Interview with director Jan Kounen on Doberman.
Index:
Kounen, Jan
Dobermann (1997)
Festival ~ Festival
Action ~ Action

#57
Bottoms, Janet: Speech, image, action: Animating tales from Shakespeare. In: Children’s Literature in Education 32. 2001. No. 1. [March] pp. 3-15.
Index:
Shakespeare, William
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action
Jugend ~ Youth

#58
Braun, Harald / Könekamp, Torsten: Action ... Cut! In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1992. No. 1(164). [?D] pp. 142-143.
Description:
Production report of David Seltzer’s Shining Through partly shot in Berlin.
Index:
Seltzer, David
Shining Through (1990)
Action ~ Action
Berlin ~ Berlin

#59
Breckner, Ingrid / Herrath, Frank: Medienkonsum von Kindern und Jugendlichen: Pädagogische Kritik zwischen Mythen und Fakten. - München: Verlag Deutsches Jugendinstitut / Weinheim; München: Juventa-Verlag 1987. (= Materialien zum siebten Jugendbericht 6.)
Index:
Pädagogik ~ Paedagogy
Jugend ~ Youth
Action ~ Action

#60
Brode, Douglas: Boys and toys: Ultimate action-adventure movies. - New York: Citadel Press 2003.
Index:
Spielzeuge ~ Toys*
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#61
Brown, Jeffrey A.: Beyond bombshells: The new action heroine in popular culture. - Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi 2015.
Index:
Fincher, David
Hunger Games (Filmreihe)
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2011)
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#62
Brown, Jeffrey A.: Bullets, buddies, and bad guys: The "Action Cop" genre. In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 21. 1993. No. 2. [?D] pp. 79-87.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Polizei ~ Police

#63
Brown, Jeffrey A.: Dangerous curves: Action heroines, gender, fetishism, and popular culture. - Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi 2011.
Reviews:
McCracken, Chelsea: [untitled.] In: The Velvet Light Trap 2012. No. 70. [Fall] pp. 66-67.
Index:
Roboter ~ Robots
Vampire ~ Vampires
Frauen ~ Women
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#64
Brown, Jeffrey A.: Gender and the action heroine: Hardbodies and the Point of No Return. In: Cinema Journal 35. 1996. No. 3. [Spring] pp. 52-71.
Index:
Badham, John
Point of No Return / Assasin, The (1993)
Körper ~ Bodies
Action ~ Action
Sexualität ~ Sexuality

#65
Brunet, Robin: Shooting the live-action flight scenes for The Boy who Could Fly. In: Cinefantastique 17. 1987. No. 2. [March] pp. 42-43.
Index:
Castle, Nick
Boy Who Could Fly, The (1986)
Action ~ Action

#66
Bukatman, Scott: Brushstrokes in CinemaScope: Minnelli’s action painting in Lust for Life. In: Vincente Minnelli: The art of entertainment. Edited by Joe McElhaney - Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press 2009. (= Contemporary approaches to film and television.) pp. 297-321.
Index:
Minnelli, Vincente
Lust For Life (1956)
Kunst ~ Arts, The
Cinemascope ~ Cinemascope
Action ~ Action

#67
Büllmann, Bert: Katja Riemann schlägt zurück: Deutsche Action: Nur aus Liebe. In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1996. No. 1(212). [?D] p. 96.
Index:
Satin, Dennis
Riemann, Katja
Nur aus Liebe (1996)
Action ~ Action
Deutschland ~ Germany

#68
Butler, Alison: "Motor-driven metaphysics": Movement, time and action in the films of Maya Deren. In: Screen 48. 2007. No. 1. [Spring] pp. 1-23.
Index:
Derenkowitsch, Eleonora [Pseudonym: Deren, Maya]
Religion ~ Religion
Action ~ Action

#69
Buttgereit, Jörg: Schnörkellos & schmerzfrei: Jason Statham. In: EPD Film 28. 2011. No. 4. [April] pp. 28-29.
Description:
On the action hero.
Index:
Statham, Jason
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#70
Buxton, David: The care of time: The rise and fall of the action series. In: Critical Survey 6. 1994. No. 2. [?D] pp. 202-210.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#71
Campbell, Thomas: Animation and live action combine on Chex spot. In: American Cinematographer 70. 1989. No. 2. [February] pp. 75-78.
Description:
On an animated commercial spot.
Index:
Chex [Firma] ~ Chex [Company]
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#72
Cardullo, Bert: "The fruitful tree bends": Abbas Kiarostami. In: Action! Interviews with directors from classical Hollywood to contemporary Iran. Edited by Garry Morris. Foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum. - London; New York: Anthem Press 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Kiarostami, Abbas
Wald ~ Wood
Action ~ Action

#73
Cardullo, Bert: Transcendental style, poetic precision: Robert Bresson. In: Action! Interviews with directors from classical Hollywood to contemporary Iran. Edited by Garry Morris. Foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum. - London; New York: Anthem Press 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Bresson, Robert
Religion ~ Religion
Action ~ Action

#74
Caro, Mark: Action! Woo said it! In: John Woo: Interviews. Edited by Robert K. Elder. - Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi 2005. (= Conversations with filmmakers.) p. ?P.
Index:
Wu Su-Yum [Pseudonym: Woo, John]
Action ~ Action

#75
Celeste, Reni: The frozen screen: Levinas and the action film. In: Film-Philosophy 11. 2007. No. 2. [?D] p. ?P.
Index:
Levinas, Emmanuel
Action ~ Action
Philosophie ~ Philosophy

#76
Chan, Jackie / Yang, Jeff: I am Jackie Chan: My life in action. - London: Pan 1999.
First edition:
[New York: Ballantine Books 1998]
Index:
Chan, Jackie
Action ~ Action

#77
Chan, Jackie / Yang, Jeff: I am Jackie Chan: My life in action. - New York: Ballantine Books 1998.
Index:
Chan, Jackie
Action ~ Action

#78
Chan, Jackie / Yang, Jeff: Jackie Chan - Ein Leben voller Action: Die Autobiographie. Überarbeitete und erweiterte Ausgabe. - München: Heyne Verlag 2002. (= Heyne Allgemeine Reihe 20094.)
First edition:
[I am Jackie Chan. - New York: Ballantine Books 1998]
Description:
Includes a filmography.
Index:
Chan, Jackie
Action ~ Action

#79
Chan, Jackie / Yang, Jeff: Jackie Chan - Ein Leben voller Action: Die Autobiographie. - München: Heyne Verlag 1999. (= Heyne Allgemeine Reihe 20038.)
First edition:
[I am Jackie Chan. - New York: Ballantine Books 1998]
Reviews:
Arnold, Frank: In: Filmbulletin 41. 1999. No. 3(222). [?D] pp. 7-8.
ger: Jackie Chan. In: Film-Dienst 53. 2000. No. 2. [January 18] pp. 33.
Description:
Includes a filmography.
Index:
Chan, Jackie
Action ~ Action

#80
Chan, Kenneth: The construction of black male identity in black action films of the nineties. In: Cinema Journal 37. 1998. No. 2. [Winter] pp. 35-48.
Index:
Männer ~ Men
Action ~ Action

#81
Chan, Stephen C. K.: Burst into action: The changing spectacle of glamour heroines in contemporary Hong Kong cinema. In: Cultural Studies Review 10. 2004. No. 1. [March] pp. 11-26.
Index:
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#82
Christiansen, Richard: Star director, with a bullet, Hong Kong’s John Woo aims for piece of U.S. action. In: John Woo: Interviews. Edited by Robert K. Elder. - Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi 2005. (= Conversations with filmmakers.) p. ?P.
Index:
Wu Su-Yum [Pseudonym: Woo, John]
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Action ~ Action

#83
Craig, John R.: Perpetuating "the big lie": Subversive feminism in Stephen Sommers’s horror/action films. In: Popular Culture Review 18. 2007. No. 2. [?D] pp. 79-85.
Index:
Sommers, Stephen
Horror ~ Horror
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#84
Creed, Barbara: The neomyth in film: The woman warrior from Joan of Arc to Ellen Ripley. In: Women willing to fight: The fighting woman in film. Edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick. - Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2007.
Index:
Alien (Filmreihe)
Mythologie ~ Mythology
Krieg ~ War
Jeanne d’Arc ~ Joan of Arc
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#85
Crisp, Mike: After tea we’ll do the fight: Filming action. - London: BBC Television Training 1987. (= BBC Television Training manuals.)
Index:
Action ~ Action
Fernsehen ~ Television

#86
Cziraky, Dan: Star Wars: Action figure: Lucasfilm kept the dormant franchise alive with clever merchandising. In: Cinefantastique 28. 1997. No. 8. [February] pp. 29-30.
Index:
Lucas, George
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Lucasfilm [Firma] ~ Lucasfilm [Company]
Star Wars ~ Star Wars
Action ~ Action

#87
Dahan, Yannick: Le film d’action: Idéologie "ramboesque" et violence chorégraphiée. In: Positif 1998. No. 443. [?D] pp. 70-75.
Description:
On US action films.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#88
Dalton, Madeline / MacKenzie, Todd / Purvis, Lisa A. / Sutherland, Lisa A.: Prevalence of food and beverage brands in movies: 1996 - 2005. In: Pediatrics 125. 2010. No. 3. [March] pp. 468-474.
Description:
Examines, among others, comedies, action-adventure and horror films.
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Horror ~ Horror
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure
Nahrung ~ Food

#89
Dancyger, Ken: The flexibility of genre: The action-adventure film in 1939. In: Analysing the screenplay. Edited by Jill Nelmes. - London; New York: Routledge 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#90
Davies, Jon: Action, animation, archival abyss: Virgil Widrich’s Fast Film. In: Animation Journal 14. 2006. No. 1. [?D] pp. 26-43.
Index:
Widrich, Virgil
Fast Film (2003)
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#91
Deemer, Charles: The rhetoric of action: Five classic action scenes. In: Creative Screenwriting 2. 1995. No. 4. [Winter] pp. 95-105.
Description:
Discusses Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Jurassic Park as well as John McTiernan’s Die Hard and James Cameron’s True Lies.
Index:
Spielberg, Steven
McTiernan, John
Cameron, James
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Die Hard (1988)
True Lies (1994)
Action ~ Action

#92
Derobert, Éric: Valenciennes 1996. In: Positif 1997. No. 441. [November] pp. 95-96.
Description:
On the Festival of adventure and action film.
Index:
Festival ~ Festival
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#93
Distelmeyer, Jan: Mission: Impossible III: Perfekt auf den Star abgestimmt: Action-Sequel mit Tom Cruise. In: EPD Film 23. 2006. No. 6. [June] p. 34.
Index:
Abrams, J[effrey] J[acob]
Cruise, Tom
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Action ~ Action

#94
Dittgen, Andrea: Der verlorene Sohn: Der Action- und Trash-Filmer Uwe Boll. In: Film-Dienst 63. 2010. No. 20. [September 30] pp. 16-18.
Index:
Boll, Uwe
Trash ~ Trash
Action ~ Action

#95
Divine, Christian: Deep in the heart of action: Christian Divine talks to Robert Rodriguez. In: Creative Screenwriting 8. 2001. No. 2. [?D] pp. 86-89.
Description:
Especially on Spy Kids.
Index:
Rodriguez, Robert
Spy Kids (2001)
Action ~ Action

#96
Donovan, Barna William: Blood, guns, and testosterone: Action films, audiences, and a thirst for violence. - Lanham, Maryland; London: Scarecrow Press 2010.
Index:
Gewalt ~ Violence
Blut ~ Blood
Action ~ Action

#97
Donovan, Barna William: The Asian influence on Hollywood action films. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland 2008.
Index:
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Asien ~ Asia
Action ~ Action

#98
Driscoll, Catherine / Heatwole, Alexandra: The Hunger Games: Spectacle, risk and the girl action hero. - London; New York: Routledge 2018 (= Cinema and youth cultures.)
Index:
Hunger Games (Filmreihe)
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#99
Driscoll, Catherine: Superheroine: Women as martial artists in early twenty-first century cinema. In: Women willing to fight: The fighting woman in film. Edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick. - Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2007.
Index:
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#100
Duignan-Cabrera, Anthony / Kaplan, David A. / Wright, Lynda / Yoffe, Emily: Lights! Action! Disk drives! In: Newsweek 118. 1991. No. ?N [July 22]. p. 54.
Index:
Cameron, James
Terminator II - Judgement Day (1991)
Action ~ Action

#101
Dumars, Denise: John Carpenter: Mars is the place, but not the point, as the genre master takes horror and action off-world. In: Cinefantastique 33. 2001. No. 5. [October/November] pp. 43-44.
Description:
Interview with the director on Ghosts of Mars.
Index:
Carpenter, John
Ghosts of Mars / John Carpenter’s Ghost of Mars (2001)
Horror ~ Horror
Action ~ Action

#102
Dunn, Stephane: "Baad bitches" and sassy supermamas: Black Power action films. - Urbana: Illinois University Press 2008.
Reviews:
Perkins, Jason M.: [untitled.] In: Journal of African American History 94. 2009. No. 4. [?D] pp. 598-600.
Index:
Politik ~ Politics
Action ~ Action
Frauen ~ Women

#103
Dyer, Richard: Action! In: Sight and Sound NS 4. 1994. No. 10. [October] pp. 6-10.
Description:
On Jan de Bont’s Speed.
Index:
De Bont, Jan
Speed (1994)
Action ~ Action

#104
Ebinger, Inken: Ein romantischer Actionfilm mit einem Hauch James Bond: Double Team. In: Moviestar 5. 1997. No. 12(35). [December] pp. 46-47.
Index:
Xu Ke [Pseudonym: Tsui Hark]
Double Team (1997)
Romantik ~ Romanticism
Action ~ Action
James Bond ~ James Bond

#105
Ebinger, Inken / Tschiedert, Markus: Effekte, Sex & Action: Species II. In: Moviestar 6. 1998. No. 8(43). [?D] pp. 42-49.
Description:
Articles on film; includes an interview with Natasha Henstridge.
Index:
Medak, Peter
Henstridge, Natasha
Species II (1998)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Action ~ Action

#106
Eby, Douglas: Austin Powers II: The international man of mystery is swinging back into action, Baby. In: Cinefantastique 31. 1999. No. 6. [June] p. 5.
Index:
Roach, Jay
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Action ~ Action

#107
Edwards, Marlo: The blonde with the guns: Barb Wire and the "implausible" female action hero. In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 32. 2004. No. 1. [Spring] pp. 39-47.
Description:
Discusses also Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca.
Index:
Hogan, David
Rifkin, Adam
Curtiz, Michael
Barb Wire (1996)
Casablanca (1942)
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#108
Erdmann, Terry J.: Star Trek action!. - New York; London: Pocket Books 1998.
Index:
Star Trek (Filmreihe)
Action ~ Action

#109
Erdmann, Terry J.: Star Trek: Action! - New York; London: Pocket Books 1998.
Index:
Star Trek (Filmreihe)
Star Trek ~ Star Trek
Action ~ Action

#110
Everschor, Franz: Action für Kalifornien: Arnold Schwarzenegger kämpft um eine politische Karriere. In: Film-Dienst 56. 2003. No. 19. [September 9] pp. 64-65.
Index:
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Politik ~ Politics
Kalifornien ~ California
Action ~ Action

#111
Everschor, Franz: Die Superfrauen kommen. In: Zoom 46. 1994. No. 6/7. [?D] p. 12.
Description:
On women in Hollywood action film.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Frauen ~ Women

#112
Everschor, Franz: Die Terminatoren sind müde. In: Zoom 49. 1997. No. 4. [April] pp. 10-11.
Description:
On the problems in finding new talented action players, plus comments on the careers of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Index:
Stallone, Sylvester
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Action ~ Action

#113
Everschor, Franz: Ein Chamäleon der Filmmusik: Flexibilität und Pragmatismus: Der Komponist Jerry Goldsmith. In: Film-Dienst 52. 1999. No. 20. [September 28] pp. 45-47.
Description:
On the composer who worked for many action, fantasy and science fiction films.
Index:
Goldsmith, Jerry
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Musik ~ Music
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Action ~ Action

#114
Everschor, Franz: Ein Mysterien-Spiel: Gedanken zum "sanften" Actionfilm Unbreakable - Unzerbrechlich. In: Film-Dienst 54. 2001. No. 1. [January 2] pp. 12-13.
Index:
Shyamalan, M. Night
Unbreakable (2000)
Action ~ Action

#115
Everschor, Franz: Nur noch alte Männer: Der Actionfilm verliert seinen Pfiff. In: Film-Dienst 66. 2013. No. 5. [February 28] p. 27.
Index:
Männer ~ Men
Action ~ Action

#116
Everschor, Franz: Sag mir, wo die Helden sind ... Hollywoods Action-Stars haben keine Nachfolger. In: Film-Dienst 50. 1997. No. 3. [February 4] pp. 40-41.
Index:
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#117
Feng, Peter X.: False and double consciousness: Race, virtual reality and the assimilation of Hong Kong action cinema in The Matrix. In: Aliens R us: The other in science fiction cinema. Edited by Ziauddin Sardar and Sean Cubitt. - London; Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press 2002. pp. 149-63.
Index:
Wachowski, Andy
Wachowski, Larry
Matrix, The (1999)
Ethnie ~ Ethnicity
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Cyberspace ~ Cyberspace
Aliens ~ Aliens
Action ~ Action

#118
Feng, Peter X.: False consciousness and double consciousness: Race, virtual reality, and the assimilation of Hong Kong action cinema in The Matrix. In: Chinese connections: Critical perspectives on film, identity and diaspora. Edited by Tan See-Kam, Peter X. Feng and Gina Marchetti. - Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Wachowski, Andy
Wachowski, Larry
Matrix, The (Filmreihe)
Ethnie ~ Ethnicity
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Cyberspace ~ Cyberspace
Action ~ Action
China ~ China

#119
Ferguson, Ken: Indiana in action. In: Film Monthly 1. 1989. No. ?N. [July]. pp. 40-41.
Index:
Spielberg, Steven
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones ~ Indiana Jones
Action ~ Action

#120
Fernández-Menicucci, Amaya: Action and reaction: The villain’s body and its role in shaping the heroic body in Hollywood action films of the 1990s. In: Embodying masculinities: Towards a history of the male body in US culture and literature. Edited by Josep M. Armengol. - New York; Frankfurt/Main: Lang 2013. (= Masculinity studies: Literary and cultural representations 3.) pp. 103-123.
Index:
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Helden ~ Heros
Böse, Das ~ Evil, The
Action ~ Action
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Männer ~ Men
Literatur ~ Literature
Körper ~ Bodies

#121
Filmführer Action: Das besondere digitale deutschsprachige Filmlexikon. Hrsg. vom Medienteam 66. - Haar/München: Markt und Technik Verlag 1995. (= Markt & Technik interactive.)
Description:
CD ROM edition.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Deutschland ~ Germany

#122
Fischer, Dennis: Joel Silver: The action-packed producer also knows how to scare up a good genre film. In: Cinefantastique 31. 1999. No. 4. [April] p. 42.
Index:
Silver, Joel
Action ~ Action

#123
Fischer, Marc: "Ich bin halt ein galanter Typ": Filmstar Bruce Willis über Action, Geister und Sixth Sense. In: Der Spiegel 53. 1999. No. 52. [December 27] p. 61.
Description:
Interview.
Index:
Shyamalan, M. Night
Willis, Bruce
Sixth Sense, The (1999)
Geister ~ Ghosts
Action ~ Action

#124
Flanagan, Martin: "Get ready for rush hour": The chronotope in action. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Zeit ~ Time
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#125
Flanagan, Martin: Fighting to be seen: Looking for women in the West, from The Searchers to The Missing. In: Women willing to fight: The fighting woman in film. Edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick. - Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2007.
Index:
Ford, John
Howard, Ron
Searchers, The (1956)
Missing, The (2003)
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#126
Flintrop, Michael: Der Action-Cop als populäres Filmgenre: Versuch einer Bestimmung. - München: AVM 2010.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#127
Flintrop, Michael: Der Action-Cop als populäres Filmgenre: Versuch einer Bestimmung. - Göttingen: Universität Göttingen, Dissertation 2009.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#128
Fogler, A.: Kino potrzebuje magii. In: Kino [Warschau] 24. 1990. No. 1(271) [?D] pp. 16-20.
Description:
On the special effects for contemporary action films.
Index:
Magie ~ Magic
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Technik ~ Technology
Action ~ Action

#129
Foka, Anna: Redefining gender in sword and sandal: The new action heroine in Spartacus (2010-13). In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 43. 2015. No. 1. [?D] pp. 39-49.
Index:
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (TV)
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#130
Fordham, Joe: Animal action: G-Force. In: Cinefex 2009. No. 119. [October] p. ?P.
Description:
On the special effects by Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Index:
Yeatman, Hoyt
G-Force (2009)
Tiere ~ Animals
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Sony Pictures Imageworks [Firma] ~ Sony Pictures Imageworks [Company]
Action ~ Action

#131
Fradley, Martin: Maximus melodramaticus: Masculinity, masochism and white male paranoia in contemporary hollywood cinema. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Wahnsinn ~ Madness
Sexualität: Sadomasochismus ~ Sexuality: Sadomasochism
Männer ~ Men
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#132
Frederick, Ursula: Past, present, future: Finding treasure in the lives of Lara Croft. In: Women willing to fight: The fighting woman in film. Edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick. - Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2007.
Index:
Utopie ~ Utopia
Lara Croft ~ Lara Croft
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#133
French, Lawrence: Phil Tippett on bringing the roboaction to life with stop-motion magic. In: Cinefantastique 21. 1991. No. 6. [June] pp. 39-42.
Description:
On the special effects for Robocop II.
Index:
Kershner, Irvin
Tippett, Phil
Robocop II (1990)
Magie ~ Magic
Action ~ Action
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects

#134
Frizzoni, Brigitte / Tomkowiak, Ingrid / Trümmer, Manuel: Action als Artefakt, Ereignis, Erlebnis: Vorwort. In: Action! Artefakt, Ereignis, Erlebnis. Hrsg. von Ingrid Tomkowiak, Brigitte Frizzoni und Manuel Trummer. - Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017. (= Kulturen populärer Unterhaltung und Vergnügung 4.) pp. 7 ff.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#135
Fuchs, Christa: Der Actionfilm als potenzielle Ersatzreligion Jugendlicher: Eine explorative Untersuchung religiöser Funktionen im Actionfilm. - München: GRIN Verlag 2009.
Index:
Religion ~ Religion
Jugend ~ Youth
Action ~ Action

#136
Funnell, Lisa: Fighting for a Hong Kong/Chinese female identity: Michelle Yeoh, body performance, and globalized action cinema. In: Asian popular culture in transition. Edited by John A. Lent and Lorna Fitzsimmons. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge 2012. (= Routledge contemporary Asia 36.) p. ?P.
Index:
Yeoh, Michelle
Globalisierung ~ Globalization
Körper ~ Bodies
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Frauen ~ Women
China ~ China
Asien ~ Asia
Action ~ Action

#137
Fussfeld Cohen, Orit: The digital action image of James Bond. In: Quarterly Review of Film and Video 33. 2016. No. 2. [February/March] pp. 101-121.
Description:
On the representation of masculinity in the James Bond films.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
Technik: Computer ~ Technology: Computer
Männer ~ Men
James Bond ~ James Bond
Action ~ Action

#138
Gallafent, Edward: Two views over water: Action and absorption in Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957). In: Film moments: Criticism, history, theory. Edited by Tom Brown and James Walters. - London: Palgrave Macmillan / British Film Institute 2010. p. ?P.
Index:
Bergman, Ingmar
Smultronstället (1957)
Action ~ Action

#139
Gallagher, Mark: Action figures: Men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives. - Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2006.
Description:
On the history of male action heroes in film. Includes a chapter on Jackie Chan and the Hong Kong action film.
Index:
Männer ~ Men
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#140
Gallagher, Mark P.: Action figures: Spectacular masculinity in the contemporary action film and the contemporary American novel. - ?O: University of Oregon, Ph.D. 2000. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 61. 2001. No. 7. (January) p. 2497A.]
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Männer ~ Men
Action ~ Action

#141
Gandini, Leonardo: Brian De Palma: Vom psychoanalytischen Krimi zum puren Action- Movie: Die eklektische Karriere eines umstrittenen Regisseurs. - Marburg: Schüren / Roma: Gremese 2002. (= Berühmte Filmregisseure.)
First edition:
[Roma: Gremese 1996]
Reviews:
Mihm, Kai: Der Spalter: De Palma für Einsteiger. In: EPD Film 20. 2003. No. 4. [April] p. 63.
Volk, Stefan: [untitled] In: Film-Dienst 56. 2002. No. 1. [December 31] p. 38.
Index:
De Palma, Brian
Psychologie ~ Psychology
Kriminalität ~ Crime
Action ~ Action

#142
Garcia, Bob: Batman, the animmated series: Directing the cartoon action. In: Cinefantastique 24/25. 1994. No. 6/1. [February] pp. 95-97.
Description:
On the work of directors Kevin Altieri, Dan Riba, Boyd Kirkland and Frank Paur.
Index:
Altieri, Kevin
Riba, Dan
Kirkland, Boyd
Paur, Frank
Batman [The Animated Series] (TV)
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
Batman ~ Batman

#143
García, Enrique: Latino action heroes, strippers, and non-hegemonic miscegenation: Family apocalypse in Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror. In: Post Script 33. 2014. No. 3. [Summer] pp. 59-72.
Index:
Rodriguez, Robert
Planet Terror (2007)
Religion: Apokalypse ~ Religion: Apocalypse
Lateinamerika ~ Latin America
Helden ~ Heros
Familie ~ Family
Action ~ Action
Zombies ~ Zombies

#144
Gates, Philippa: The Asian renovation of biracial buddy action: Negotiating globalization in the millennial Hollywood cop action film. In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 40. 2012. No. 2. [?D] pp. 83-93.
Index:
Globalisierung ~ Globalization
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Asien ~ Asia
Action ~ Action

#145
Gerle, Jörg: Can You Dig it? In: Film-Dienst 63. 2010. No. 14. [July 8] p. 39.
Description:
On a CD edition of the music for black action films from 1969 to 1975.
Index:
Musik ~ Music
Action ~ Action

#146
Goldman, Michael / Leipzig, Adam / Weiss, Barry: Filmmaking in action: Your guide to the skills and craft. - Boston, Massachussetts; New York: Bedford / St. Martin’s / Macmillan Education 2016.
Description:
Includes a chapter on "visual effects and animation".
Index:
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#147
Gopalan, Lalitha: Cinema of interruptions: Action genres in contemporary Indian cinema. - ?O: ?V ?J.
Reviews:
Needham, Gary: Reviews. In: Screen 45. 2004. No. 2. [Summer] pp. 168-171.
Index:
Indien ~ India
Action ~ Action

#148
Göth, Julian: Rauschhafte Action: Zum Tod von Tony Scott - eine Hommage in sechs Kapiteln. In: EPD Film 29. 2012. No. 10. [October] pp. 18-19.
Index:
Scott, Tony
Tod ~ Death
Action ~ Action

#149
Goulden, J.: The Western, the Buddy Movie and Noir: Lesbian re-readings of the American action movie. - Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: Open University, M.Phil. 2000.
Index:
Western-Filme ~ Western Films
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Sexualität: Homosexualität ~ Sexuality: Homosexuality
Film Noir ~ Film Noir
Action ~ Action

#150
Grady, Frank: Arnoldian humanism, or, Amnesia and autobiography in the Schwarzenegger action film. In: Cinema Journal 42. 2003. No. 2. [Winter] pp. 41-56.
Description:
Especially on Schwarzenegger’s role in Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall.
Index:
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Verhoeven, Paul
Total Recall (1990)
Action ~ Action

#151
Gramfors, Chi An: Hong Kong erövrar världen. In: Filmhäftet 26. 1998. No. 103. [?D] pp. 18-28.
Description:
On Hong Kong action films of the 1980s and 1990s.
Index:
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Action ~ Action

#152
Grant, Barry Keith: Man’s favorite sport? The action films of Kathryn Bigelow (2004). In: Auteurs and authorship: A film reader. Edited by Barry Keith Grant. - Malden, Massachussetts; Oxford: Blackwell Publishing 2008. p. ?P.
Index:
Bigelow, Kathryn
Sport ~ Sports
Action ~ Action

#153
Grant, Barry Keith: Man’s favorite sport? The action films of Kathryn Bigelow. In: Grant, Barry Keith: Shadows of doubt: Negotiations of masculinity in American genre films. - Detroit: Wayne State University Press 2010. (= Contemporary approaches to film and television.) p. ?P.
Index:
Bigelow, Kathryn
Sport ~ Sports
Action ~ Action
Männer ~ Men
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)

#154
Grant, Barry Keith: Man’s favourite sport? The action films of Kathryn Bigelow. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Bigelow, Kathryn
Sport ~ Sports
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#155
Gray, Simon: Rapturous action. In: American Cinematographer 94. 2013. No. 8. [August] pp. 56-65.
Description:
On Ross Emery’s camera work for James Mangold’s The Wolverine.
Index:
Mangold, James
Emery, Ross
Wolverine, The (2013)
Technik: Kamera ~ Technology: Camera
Action ~ Action

#156
The greatest action movies ever: The definitive guide. Special collectors’ edition. - London: Empire 2001.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#157
Green, Caroline Ann: "She has to be controlled": Exploring the action heroine in contemporary science fiction cinema. - Exeter, Devon: University of Exeter, Ph.D. 2010.
Index:
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#158
Gricksch, Gernot: Machos: Massive Muskeln machen mächtig Money. In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1991. No. 5(156). [?D] pp. 62-65.
Description:
On the action players Michael Dudikoff, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jackie Chan, Dolph Lundgren and Chuck Norris.
Index:
Dudikoff, Michael
Seagal, Steven
Van Damme, Jean Claude
Chan, Jackie
Lundgren, Dolph
Norris, Chuck
Körper ~ Bodies
Action ~ Action

#159
Griffin, Scott Tracy: Tarzan: The Epic Adventures: Joe Lara: Action star carries the Tarzan torch. In: Cinefantastique 29. 1997. No. 1. [July] p. 49.
Index:
Buechler, John Carl
Roper, Mark
Tanasecu, Gino
Tannen, William
Yuzna, Brian
Lara, Joe
Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (TV)
Tarzan ~ Tarzan
Action ~ Action

#160
Groh, Thomas: Missing the Action: Missing (Sam Hoi Tsam Yan). In: Splatting Image 2008. No. 76. [December] p. 58.
Index:
Xu Ke [Pseudonym: Tsui Hark]
Sam hoi tsam yan (2008)
Action ~ Action

#161
Gross, Edward: Alias - action and stunts. In: Cinefantastique 34. 2002. No. 6. [October/November] p. 40.
Index:
Alias (TV)
Action ~ Action

#162
Gross, Lary: Big and loud. In: Sight and Sound NS 5. 1995. No. 8. [August] pp. 6-10.
Description:
On the new Hollywood action film. Discusses, among others, Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever, John McTiernan’s Die Hard With a Vengeance and Kevin Reynolds’s Waterworld.
Index:
Schumacher, Joel
McTiernan, John
Reynolds, Kevin
Batman Forever (1995)
Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995)
Waterworld (1995)
Action ~ Action
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#163
Grossman, Andrew: An actionist begins to sing: Otto Muehl. Translated by Robert Mark Grossman. In: Action! Interviews with directors from classical Hollywood to contemporary Iran. Edited by Garry Morris. Foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum. - London; New York: Anthem Press 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Muehl, Otto
Action ~ Action

#164
Häger, Kathrin: Hercules: Schlachtengetümmel, Blut, Dekor: Normierte Historien-Action. In: Film-Dienst 67. 2014. No. 18. [August 28] p. 50.
Index:
Ratner, Brett
Hercules (2014)
Geschichte ~ History
Blut ~ Blood
Action ~ Action

#165
Hanich, Julian: Shanghai Knights: Neue Actionkomödie mit Jackie Chan. In: EPD Film 21. 2004. No. 1. [January] pp. 40-41.
Index:
Dobkin, David
Chan, Jackie
Shanghai Knights (2003)
Action ~ Action

#166
Hasebrink, Uwe: Individuelle Muster der Actionnutzung. In: Rezeptionsforschung: Theorien und Untersuchungen zum Umgang mit Massenmedien. Hrsg. von M. Charlton und S. Schneider. - Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1997. p. ?P.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#167
Hasenbrink, Uwe: Zur Nutzung action- und gewaltorientierter Fernsehangebote. In: Gewaltdarstellungen in den Medien: Theorien, Fakten und Analysen. Hrsg. von Mike Friedrichsen und Gerhard Vowe. - Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1995. pp. 194 ff.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Gewalt ~ Violence
Fernsehen ~ Television

#168
Heil, Susan Kay Romoser: Does humor mediate the effects of film violence? Affective consequences of viewing the violent action comedy. - Manhattan, Kansas: Kansas State University, Ph.D. 2001. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International B 62. 2002. No. 7. [January] p. 3420].
Index:
Humor ~ Humor
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#169
Heimerson, S.: Folj med pa en schysst vilda ostern! In: Chaplin 34. 1992. No. 6(243). [?D] pp. 30-33.
Description:
On the Hong Kong action film.
Index:
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Action ~ Action

#170
Heinzlmeier, Adolf [et al.]: Road movies: Action-Kino der Maschinen und Motoren. - Hamburg; Zürich: Rasch und Röhring 1985.
Index:
Technik ~ Technology
Road Movies ~ Road Movies
Action ~ Action

#171
Helbling, Lorenzo: Als ob er mich warnen wollte ... In: Cinema [Zürich] 1992. No. 38. [?D] pp. 159-163.
Description:
On the Hong Kong action film.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong

#172
Helford, Elyce Ray: Postfeminism and the feminist action-adventure hero: Positioning Tank Girl. In: Future females, the next generation: New voices and velocities in feminist science fiction criticism. Edited by Marleen S. Barr. - Lanham, Maryland; Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield 2000. pp. 291-308.
Index:
Talalay, Rachel
Tank Girl (1995)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#173
Hermansson, Henrik: Vampyrfilmer - från slavisk folktro till amerikansk action. In: Filmrutan 47. 2004. No. 1. [Spring] pp. 4-7.
Description:
On the history of the vampire film.
Index:
Vampire ~ Vampires
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Action ~ Action

#174
Hernandez, Elvin A.: Set the action! Creating backgrounds for compelling storytelling in animation, comics, and games. - Waltham, Massachusetts: Focal Press 2012.
Index:
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#175
Hertling, Marc: "So viel Action, daß die Leute vom Stuhl fallen". In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1990. No. 11(150). [?D] p. 50.
Description:
Interview with director Renny Harlin, especially on The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.
Index:
Harlin, Renny
Adventures of Ford Fairlane, The (1990)
Action ~ Action

#176
Heuring, David: Skiing into the action. In: American Cinematographer 91. 2010. No. 7. [July] p. 30.
Description:
On the special effects for Christopher Nolan’s Inception.
Index:
Nolan, Christopher
Inception (2010)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Action ~ Action

#177
Hicks, Neill D.: "Fill your hand you son-of-a-bitch": The underlying morality of action-adventure films. In: Creative Screenwriting 2. 1995. No. 4. [?D] pp. 106-117.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#178
Hicks, Neill D.: Writing the action adventure film: The moment of truth. - Studio City: Wiese 2002.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#179
Higgins, Scott: Suspenseful situations: Melodramatic narrative and the contemporary action film. In: Cinema Journal 47. 2008. No. 2. [Winter] pp. 74-96.
Index:
Thriller ~ Thriller
Action ~ Action

#180
Hill, George H. / Parish, James Robert: Black action films: Plots, critics, casts, and credits for 235 theatrical and made-for television releases. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland 1989.
Index:
Theater ~ Theatre
Fernsehen ~ Television
Action ~ Action

#181
Hills, Elizabeth: What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this? Gender, genre, and action heroine. - New York: Lang 2000. (= Eruptions 9.)
Description:
On women in action film.
Index:
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#182
Hinrichsen, Jens: Das Sehen der Anderen: Riddick, Daredevil, Neo: Warum Blinde im Actionkino gesehen werden. In: Film-Dienst 60. 2007. No. 22. [October 25] pp. 34-35.
Index:
Twohy, David
Johnson, Mark Steven
Wachowski, Andy
Wachowski, Larry
Chronicles of Riddick, The (2004)
Daredevil (2003)
Matrix, The (Filmreihe)
Blindheit ~ Blindness
Action ~ Action

#183
Höbel, Wolfgang: Sommer der Exzesse. In: Der Spiegel 65. 2011. No. 26. [June 27] p. 115.
Description:
Compares the recent art and action film. Discusses, as examples, Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le quattro volte and Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Index:
Frammartino, Michelangelo
Bay, Michael
quattro volte, Le (2010)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Action ~ Action

#184
Hodge, Thomas: VHS video cover art. - Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing 2015.
Index:
Thriller ~ Thriller
Action ~ Action
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Horror ~ Horror
Video ~ Video

#185
Hoefer, Georg / Janssen, Susanne Regine: Gewalt als Unterhaltung im Kinderfernsehen? Analysen von Actionserien und Zeichentrickprogrammen. - Coppengrave: Coppi-Verlag 1995. (= Aufsätze zu Film und Fernsehen 8.)
Reviews:
Halefeldt, Elke: [untitled] In: Medienwissenschaft 1996. No. 4. pp. 531-532.
Description:
Discusses especially the series Knight Rider, Airwolf, The A-Team and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
Index:
Knight Rider (TV)
Airwolf (TV)
A-Team (TV)
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (TV)
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Action ~ Action
Jugend ~ Youth
Gewalt ~ Violence
Fernsehen ~ Television

#186
Hogan, David J.: The live-action filming of Spacehunter. In: Cinefantastique 13/14. 1983. No. 6/1. [September] pp. 52-53.
Index:
Johnson, Lamont
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
Action ~ Action

#187
Hogan, Ron: The stewardess is flying the plane! American films of the 1970s. - New York: Bulfinch Press 2005.
Description:
Includes chapters on the 1970s science fiction, horror, action and disaster film.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Katastrophen ~ Disasters
Horror ~ Horror
Action ~ Action

#188
Hohmann, Tobias: Action-Stars. Band 1: Stallone. - Hille: MPW 2010.
Index:
Stallone, Sylvester
Action ~ Action

#189
Hohmann, Tobias: Action-Stars. Band 3: Norris. - Hille: MPW 2013.
Index:
Norris, Chuck
Action ~ Action

#190
Holland, S. J.: Citing the viewer: Ethnography, film theory & experiences of martial arts action cinema. - Sheffield: University of Sheffield Hallam, Ph.D. 2001. [Abstract in: Index to Theses with Abstracts 52. 2003. No. 3. p. 694(52-5408)].
Index:
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Action ~ Action

#191
Holmlund, Christine: Europeans in action. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Europa ~ Europe
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#192
Höltgen, Stefan: Actionfilm of the Living Dead. In: F.LM - Texte zum Film. Online edition, May 2010.
Description:
On La Horde by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher.
Index:
Dahan, Yannick
Rocher, Benjamin
Horde, La (2010)
Action ~ Action

#193
Höltgen, Stefan: Mehr als man sehen kann: Actionfigur, Comic, Film, Computerspiel: Transformers sind extrem wandlungsfähig! - Frankfurt/Main: Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg 2007.
Index:
Transformers (Filmreihe)
Technik: Computer ~ Technology: Computer
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Action ~ Action

#194
Hölzl, Gebhard: Deutsche Action im Höhenflug: Am Set von Der Cascadeur. In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1997. No. 9(232). [?D] pp. 132-133.
Description:
On the film by Hardy Martins.
Index:
Martins, Hardy
Cascadeur, Der / Cascadeur - Die Jagd nach dem Bernsteinzimmer (1998)
Action ~ Action
Deutschland ~ Germany

#195
Hong Kong connections: Transnational imagination in action cinema. Edited by Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li and Stephan Chan Ching-kiu. - Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press 2006.
Reviews:
Fang, Karen: [untitled.] In: Journal of Film and Video 61. 2009. No. 2. [Summer] pp. 72-73.
Index:
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Action ~ Action

#196
Hopfner, Carla: Lara Croft und Charlie’s Angels: Neue Heldinnen im Actionfilm. - Wien: Braumüller 2005. (= Blickpunkte 10.)
Index:
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (Filmreihe)
Charlie’s Angels (Filmreihe)
Lara Croft ~ Lara Croft
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#197
Hopfner, Carla: Lara Croft und Charlie’s Angels: Neue Heldinnen im Actionfilm. - Wien: Universität Wien, Diplomarbeit 2004.
Index:
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (Filmreihe)
Charlie’s Angels (Filmreihe)
Lara Croft ~ Lara Croft
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#198
Hörner, Richard: Sloterdijk und das Medienzeit-Problem. - Wörth am Rhein: SCL 2006. (= Philosophische Sphären 19 / ScriptlineScience.)
Description:
Critical remarks on the German philosopher and his analysis of the representation of violence in action film, especially in James Cameron’s Terminator II - Judgement Day.
Index:
Cameron, James
Sloterdijk, Peter
Terminator II - Judgement Day (1991)
Zeit ~ Time
Philosophie ~ Philosophy
Gewalt ~ Violence
Deutschland ~ Germany
Action ~ Action

#199
Horst, Sabine: Die Jane Russell des Actionfilms: Vin Disel. In: EPD Film 28. 2011. No. 4. [April] p. 30.
Index:
Disel, Vin
Russell, Jane
Action ~ Action

#200
Horst, Sabine: Überlebenskünstlerinnen. In: EPD Film 31. 2014. No. 12. [December] pp. 12-17.
Description:
On female action stars.
Index:
Kunst ~ Arts, The
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#201
101 Actionfilme die Sie sehen sollten, bevor das Leben vorbei ist. Hrsg. von Steven Jay Schneider. Übersetzung: Stefanie Kuballa-Cottone. - Zürich; Oetwil am See: Edition Olms 2012.
First edition:
[101 action movies you must see before you die.]
Index:
Action ~ Action

#202
Hunt, Leon: The Hong Kong / Hollywood connection: Stardom and spectacle in transnational action cinema. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#203
Hunt, Leon: Zhang Ziyi, "Martial Arthouse" and the transnational Nuxia. In: Women willing to fight: The fighting woman in film. Edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick. - Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2007.
Index:
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#204
Hunter, Stephen: Violent screen: A critic’s thirteen years on the front line of the movie mayhem. - Baltimore, Maryland: Bancroft Press 1995.
Description:
Includes, among others, chapters on film noir, horror, action-adventure and on sexual obsession in film.
Index:
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Horror ~ Horror
Film Noir ~ Film Noir
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure
Gewalt ~ Violence

#205
Irsigler, Ingo: Cowboy John McClane: Traditionsbezüge und Wertediskurs in Die Hard. In: Actionkino: Moderne Klassiker des populären Films. Hrsg. von Ingo Irsigler, Gerrit Lembke und Willem Strank. - Berlin: Bertz und Fischer 2014. (= Deep Focus 19.) pp. 80 ff.
Index:
Die Hard (Filmreihe)
Action ~ Action

#206
Irsigler, Ingo / Lembke, Gerrit / Strank, Willem: Fuzzy, hybrid und pornografisch: Elf Thesen zum Actionfilm. In: Actionkino: Moderne Klassiker des populären Films. Hrsg. von Ingo Irsigler, Gerrit Lembke und Willem Strank. - Berlin: Bertz und Fischer 2014. (= Deep Focus 19.) pp. 7 ff.
Index:
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Action ~ Action

#207
Jackson, Michael Paul: Horrendous monsters. - New York: Long Island University, The Brooklyn Center, M.A. 2012. [Abstract in: Masters Abstracts International 50. 2012. No. 4. [August] p. ?P.
Description:
Examins how the conflict between Western societies and the Islamic world influences the portrayals of Arabs in mainstream action-adventure movies.
Index:
Spielberg, Steven
Cameron, James
Favreau, Jon
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982)
True Lies (1994)
Iron Man (2008)
Religion: Islam ~ Religion: Islam
Religion ~ Religion
Orient ~ Orient
Monster ~ Monster
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#208
Jacobs, Jason: Gunfire. In: Sight and Sound NS 5. 1995. No. 10. [October] pp. 38-41.
Description:
On the (male) fascination for guns. Discusses also the fantastic and action film.
Index:
Männer ~ Men
Action ~ Action

#209
Jahnke, Wolf: Die 100 besten Action-Filme. - München: Heyne Verlag 1995. (= Heyne Filmbibliothek 226.)
Index:
Action ~ Action

#210
Jahnke, Wolf / Scholten, Michael: Die 199 besten Action-Filme & Serien. - Marburg: Schüren Verlag 2012.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#211
Jancovich, Mark: Dwight MacDonald and the historical epic. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
MacDonald, Dwight
Geschichte ~ History
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#212
Janschek, Eva / Tinchon, Hans-Jörg / Vitouch, Peter: Wer reagiert wie auf Actionfilme? Versuch einer mehrdimensionalen Typenbildung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Medienkompetenz. In: Medienpsychologie 9. 1997. No. 3. [?D] pp. 209-234.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#213
Jasinski, Lisa: Action films: Kurt Kren. In: Film International 2005. No. 18. [?D] pp. 48-49.
Description:
On a DVD edition of experimental films made by Kurt Kren.
Index:
Kren, Kurt
Experimentalfilme ~ Experimental Films
DVD ~ DVD
Action ~ Action

#214
Jeffords, Susan: Breakdown: White masculinity, class and US action-adventure films. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Männer ~ Men
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#215
Jeffords, Susan: Hard bodies: Hollywood masculinity in the Reagan era. - New Brunswick, New Jersey; London: Rutgers University Press 1994.
Reviews:
Dowell, Pat: [untitled] In: Cineaste 22. 1996. No. 3. [?D] pp. 49-51.
Tomasulo, Frank P.: [untitled] In: Film Quarterly 49. 1995. No. 1. [Fall] pp. 47-49.
Description:
Discusses many horror and science fiction films; among them Ridley Scott’s Alien, the three Back to the Future films by Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton’s Batman, John McTiernan’s Die Hard, Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ivan Reitman’s Kindergarten Cop, Richard Donner’s Lethal Weapon and Lethal Weapon II, Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop, George Lucas’s Star Wars and the two Terminator films by James Cameron. Discusses also the key role of Arnold Schwarzenegger for the action film of the Reagan epoch.
Index:
Reagan, Ronald
Scott, Ridley
Zemeckis, Robert
Burton, Tim
McTiernan, John
Spielberg, Steven
Reitman, Ivan
Donner, Richard
Verhoeven, Paul
Lucas, George
Cameron, James
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Alien (1979)
Back to the Future (1985)
Back to the Future II (1989)
Back to the Future III (1990)
Batman (1989)
Die Hard (1988)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Lethal Weapon (1986)
Lethal Weapon II (1988)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982)
Robocop (1987)
Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope / Star Wars (1977/1997)
Terminator, The (1984)
Terminator II - Judgement Day (1991)
Terminator (Filmreihe)
Back to the Future (Filmreihe)
Körper ~ Bodies
Action ~ Action
Männer ~ Men
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Horror ~ Horror
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#216
Jessen, Kai: Bruce Willis: Action, Action! - München: Heyne 1998. (= Heyne Mini 1421.)
Index:
Willis, Bruce
Action ~ Action

#217
Jones, Alan: Judge Dredd: Sylvester Stallone: The action star on his science fiction persona. In: Cinefantastique 26. 1995. No. 5. [August] pp. 18-19.
Index:
Cannon, Danny
Stallone, Sylvester
Judge Dredd (1995)
Action ~ Action
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction

#218
Julius, Marshall: Action! The A-Z of action movies. - London: Batsford 1996.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#219
Julius, Marshall: Action! The action movie A-Z. - Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press 1997.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#220
Jung, Berenike: Narrating violence in post-9/11 action cinema: Terrorist narratives, cinematic narration and referentiality. - Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaftem 2010. (= VS research.)
Index:
Politik ~ Politics
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#221
Kalkofe, O. / Raschke, P. / Schröder, B. / Welke, O.: Action-Serien - Anatomie eines Genres: Von Cowboys, Cops und Detektiven - Wie die Action auf den Bildschirm kam. In: Neue Helden für die Kleinen: Das (un)heimliche Programm des Fernsehens. Hrsg. von Ingrid Paus-Haase. - Münster: Lit Verlag 1991. pp. 87-?P.
Index:
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action
Detektive ~ Detectives
Jugend ~ Youth
Fernsehen ~ Television

#222
"Kamera drauf, wumm, wumm": Der chinesische Actionfilm-Star und Regisseur Jackie Chan über Hongkong, Liegestütze, Slapstick und seinen neuen Film First Strike. In: Der Spiegel 51. 1997. No. 30. [July 21] pp. 165-167.
Index:
Chan, Jackie
Tong, Stanley
First Strike (1996)
Humor ~ Humor
Action ~ Action
China ~ China
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong

#223
Karbowiak-Gillot, Kevin: John McTiernan: Hollywood, film d’action et politique - De l’apogée au déclin d’une carrière. - Paris: L’Harmattan 2016. (= Coll. Cinéma(s).)
Index:
McTiernan, John
Politik ~ Politics
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Action ~ Action

#224
Kartvedt, S.: Hollywoods actiondrottning. In: Chaplin 33. 1991. No. 4(235). [?D] pp. 14-17.
Description:
On director Kathryn Bigelow.
Index:
Bigelow, Kathryn
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Action ~ Action

#225
Kaufman, Debra: Caribbean heat. In: American Cinematographer 80. 1999. No. 4. [April] pp. 64-73.
Description:
On the experimental action thriller Third World Cop by Chris Browne, especially on the camera work of Richard Lannaman.
Index:
Browne, Chris
Lannaman, Richard
Third World Cop (1999)
Technik: Kamera ~ Technology: Camera
Thriller ~ Thriller
Experimentalfilme ~ Experimental Films
Action ~ Action

#226
Kellerman, John: Star Wars vintage action figures: A guide for collectors. 2nd. edition. - San Rafael, California: Frontback Books 2010.
Index:
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Action ~ Action

#227
Kellerman, John: Star Wars vintage action figures: A guide for collectors. - San Rafael, California: Frontback Books 2003.
Index:
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Action ~ Action

#228
Kellerman, John: Star Wars vintage action figures: Reference & price guide. - Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications 1998.
Index:
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Action ~ Action

#229
Kendrick, James: Pure action, packaged violence: The role of the action film in 1980s Hollywood. In: Kendrick, James: Hollywood bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American cinema. - Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Action ~ Action
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Gewalt ~ Violence
Blut ~ Blood

#230
Kendrick, James: Screen violence and the New Hollywood. - Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, Ph.D. 2005. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 66. 2005. No. 4. (October) p. 1202.]
Description:
Discusses especially the representation of violence in action and horror film.
Index:
Horror ~ Horror
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#231
Keßler, Christian: 99 Cent für die Ewigkeit: US-Rummelplatzaction aus der Grabbelkiste. In: Splatting Image 2008. No. 74. [June] pp. 5-11.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Action ~ Action

#232
Keßler, Christian: Pfadfinder machen grausigen Fund: Mehr Testosterongeschwängerte US-Actionfilme. In: Splatting Image 2008. No. 73. [March] pp. 7-12.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Action ~ Action

#233
Keßler, Christian: Ruckzuck die Fresse dick! In: Splatting Image 1994. No. 17. [March] pp. 11-18.
Description:
On 1970s Italian police action film. Discusses, among others, Camorra - Ein Bulle räumt auf (Napoli Violenta) and Die Kröte (La banda del gobbo) by Umberto Lenzi, Tote Zeugen singen nicht / Straße ins Jenseits (La polizia incrimina / La legge assolve) by Enzo G. Castellari, Killer-Cop (La polizia ha le mani legate) by Luciano Ercoli, Hunted City (Sbirro, la tua legge e lenta, la mia ... no!) by Stelvio Massi, Die gnadenlose Hand des Gesetzes / Das Blut der schwarzen Schlange (La mano spietata della legge) by Mario Gariazzo, Die Killer-Meute (Napoli spara) by Mario Caiano, Kaliber 38 - Genau zwischen die Augen (Quelli della calibro 38) by Massimo Dallamano, Cop Hunter ( Italia a mano armata) by Mariano Girolami and Provinz ohne Gesetz / Kommando Siku (Provincia violenta) by Mario Bianchi. Includes a filmography.
Index:
Lenzi, Umberto
Castellari, Enzo G.
Ercoli, Luciano
Massi, Stelvio
Gariazzo, Mario
Caiano, Mario
Dallamano, Massimo
Girolami, Marino
Bianchi, Mario
Napoli violenta (1976)
banda del gobbo, La (1977)
polizia incrimina, La / legge assolve, La (1973)
polizia ha le mani legate, La (1975)
Sbirro, la tua legge e lenta, la mia ... no! (1979)
mano spietata della legge, La (1973)
Napoli spara (1977)
Quelli della calibro 38 (1976)
Italia a mano armata (1976)
Provincia violenta (1978)
Action ~ Action
Polizei ~ Police
Italien ~ Italy

#234
Keßler, Christian: Testosteron gone wild! Amerikanische Actionfilmhelden - Ein Lobgesang. In: Splatting Image 2007. No. 72. [December] pp. 5-10.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#235
Khatchadourian, Haig: Movement and action in film. In: The British Journal of Aesthetics 20. 1980. No. ?N. [?D] pp. 349-355.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#236
Kindblom, Mikaela: Action: Rörelsens magi / Verkligheten kring våldet förenklas. In: Chaplin 38. 1996. No. 1(262). [?D] pp. 14-22.
Description:
On the representation of violence in the action film, especially in Strange Days.
Index:
Bigelow, Kathryn
Strange Days (1995)
Magie ~ Magic
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#237
Kinder brauchen Helden: Power Rangers & Co. unter der Lupe. Hrsg. von Dieter Czaja. Mit Beiträgen von Ulrich Anton [et al.]. - München: KoPäd Verlag 1997.
Reviews:
Gangloff, Tilmann P.: [untitled] In: Medien Praktisch 22. 1998. No. 2(86). [?D] pp. 67-68.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Helden ~ Heros
Jugend ~ Youth

#238
King, Cynthia M.: Effects of humorous heroes and villains in violent action films. In: Journal of Communication 50. 2000. No. 1. [Winter] pp. 5-24.
Index:
Böse, Das ~ Evil, The
Humor ~ Humor
Helden ~ Heros
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#239
King, Neal: Heroes in hard times: Cop action movies in the U.S. - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press 1999.
Reviews:
McKinney, Devin: [untitled] In: Film Quarterly 54. 2000/2001. No. 2. [Winter] pp. 54-55.
Index:
Polizei ~ Police
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#240
Kinnard, Roy: The comics come alive: A guide to comic-strip characters in live-action productions. - Metuchen, New Jersey; London: Scarecrow Press 1991.
Description:
A list of filmings of comic book characters in real life action films.
Index:
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Action ~ Action
Animation ~ Animation

#241
Kirsner, Inge: Actionästhet, Vielfilmer, Identitätssucher: Ridley Scott und seine Kinowelten. In: Handbuch Theologie und populärer Film. Herausgegeben von Thomas Bohrmann. Band 2. - Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh 2009. pp. 111 ff.
Index:
Scott, Ridley
Action ~ Action
Religion ~ Religion

#242
Kitson, Michael: Action man Chan. In: Cinema Papers 1996. No. 110. [June] p. 4.
Description:
Interview with Jackie Chan.
Index:
Chan, Jackie
Action ~ Action

#243
Kleiner, Felicitas: Planet der Affen: Survival: Actionreicher Abgesang auf die Menschheit. In: Film-Dienst 70. 2017. No. 16. [August 3] p. 40.
Index:
Reeves, Matt
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Action ~ Action

#244
Kleiner, Felicitas: Spider-Man: Homecoming: Fantasievolle Actionkomödie voll jugendlichen Überschwangs. In: Film-Dienst 70. 2017. No. 15. [July 20] p. 48.
Index:
Watts, Jon
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Phantasie ~ Fantasy
Jugend ~ Youth
Action ~ Action

#245
Knepp, Dennis: The mind of blue snaggletooth: The intentional stance, vintage Star Wars action figures, and the origins of religion. In: The ultimate Star Wars and philosophy: You must unlearn what you have learned. Edited by Jason T. Eberl and Kevin S. Decker. - Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, Massachussetts: John Wiley & Sons 2015. (= Blackwell philosophy and popculture.) p. ?P.
Index:
Lucas, George
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Zähne ~ Teeth
Religion ~ Religion
Action ~ Action
Philosophie ~ Philosophy

#246
Knight, Gladys L.: Female action heroes: A guide to women in comics, video games, film, and television. - Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood 2010.
Description:
Includes, among others, chapters on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess, Charlie’s Angels, the Alien, Star Wars and the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider series, Catwoman and Emma Peel.
Index:
Lucas, George
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Xena: Warrior Princess (TV)
Charlie’s Angels (Filmreihe)
Alien (Filmreihe)
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (Filmreihe)
Video ~ Video
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women
Fernsehen ~ Television
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Action ~ Action

#247
Knutsvik, Geier Stenar: Pam Grier: En actiondronning vender tilbake. In: Z Filmtidsskrift ?G. 1998. No. ?N(64). [?D] pp. 8-11.
Description:
On Pam Grier’s earlier Hollywood carrer as an blaxploitation actress.
Index:
Grier, Pam
Exploitation ~ Exploitation
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Action ~ Action

#248
Köhler, Margret: Religion = Action: Ein Gespräch mit Martin Scorsese. In: Film-Dienst 59. 2006. No. 2. [January 19] p. 12.
Index:
Scorsese, Martin
Religion ~ Religion
Action ~ Action

#249
Köhler, Margret: Starke Frauen im Film: Die Rolle der Frau im neuen Action-Film. In: Film & Fakten 1993. No. 19. [July] pp. 3-7.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Frauen ~ Women

#250
Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia: From martial arts action hero to Asia’s derious leading man. In: International Herald Tribune, August 20, 2009. pp. 9-10.
Description:
On actor Donnie Yen.
Index:
Yen, Donnie
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Helden ~ Heros
Asien ~ Asia
Action ~ Action

#251
Korsmeyer, Carolyn: Passion and action: In and out of control. In: Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and philosophy: Fear and trembling in Sunnydale. Edited by James B. South. - Chicago, Illinois: Open Court 2003. (= Popular Culture and Philosophy 4.) p. ?P.
Index:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Action ~ Action
Philosophie ~ Philosophy

#252
Koskinen, Maaret: Actionfeinmist pa defensiven. In: Chaplin 33. 1991. No. 4(235). [?D] pp. 67-68.
Description:
On James Cameron’s Terminator II - Judgement Day.
Index:
Cameron, James
Terminator II - Judgement Day (1991)
Action ~ Action

#253
Koskinen, Maaret: Actionfeminist pa defensiven. In: Chaplin 33. 1991. No. 4(235). [?D] pp. 67-68.
Index:
Cameron, James
Terminator II - Judgement Day (1991)
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#254
Krainhöfner, Jürgen / Tschiedert, Markus: Action-Kino made in Germany: Cascadeur. In: Moviestar 6. 1998. No. 8(43). [?D] pp. 50-53.
Description:
Article on and interview with director Hardy Martins.
Index:
Martins, Hardy
Cascadeur, Der / Cascadeur - Die Jagd nach dem Bernsteinzimmer (1998)
Deutschland ~ Germany
Action ~ Action

#255
Krämer, Peter: "It’s aimed at kids - the kid in everybody": George Lucas, Star Wars and children’s entertainment. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Jugend ~ Youth
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#256
Krizanovich, Karen: Infographic guide to the movies. - London: Cassell Illustrated 2013.
Description:
Discusses, among others, the horror, sci-fi, action and slasher film as well as film noir and the zombie film.
Index:
Zombies ~ Zombies
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Horror ~ Horror
Film Noir ~ Film Noir
Action ~ Action

#257
Kronengold, Charles: Audiovisual objects, multisensory people and the intensified ordinary in Hong Kong action films. In: The Oxford handbook of new audiovisual aesthetics. Edited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman and Carol Vernallis. - New York: Oxford University Press 2013. p. ?P.
Index:
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Action ~ Action
Musik ~ Music

#258
Kuhn, Doris: Kingsman - The Golden Circle: Weltretten mit Stil: Das Sequel der Agenten-Actionkomödie. In: Film-Dienst 70. 2017. No. 20. [September 28] p. 38.
Index:
Vaughn, Matthew
Kingsman - The Golden Circle (2017)
Spione ~ Spys
Action ~ Action

#259
Kulbarsch-Wilke, Julia: Frauen, Politik und Action - das Phänomen der James-Bond-Spielfilmreihe im Spiegel der Zeit: Eine Analyse der Filme im Zeitraum von 1962 bis 2006. - Hamburg: Diplomica-Verlag 2009.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
Politik ~ Politics
James Bond ~ James Bond
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#260
Kulle, Daniel: Choreografien des Schmerzes: Actionfilm und die Grenzen der somatischen Empathie. In: Montage/AV 21. 2012. No. 2. p. ?P.
Description:
Discusses, among others, John McTiernans’s Die Hard.
Index:
McTiernan, John
Die Hard (1988)
Action ~ Action

#261
Kundert-Gibbs, John L. / Kundert-Gibbs, Kristin: Action! Acting lessons for CG animators. - Indianapolis, Indiana: Wiley 2009.
Index:
Pädagogik ~ Paedagogy
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#262
Kutner, C. Jerry: Somebody up there likes me: Robert Wise. In: Action! Interviews with directors from classical Hollywood to contemporary Iran. Edited by Garry Morris. Foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum. - London; New York: Anthem Press 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Wise, Robert
Action ~ Action

#263
Lampert, Claudia / Paus-Hasebrink, Ingrid: Dragonball und Dragonball Z: Action, Abenteuer, Anime: Action-Anime - eine neue Generation von Action-Cartoons. In: Medien und Erziehung 47. 2003. No. 1. [?D] pp. 28-31.
Index:
Nishio, Daisuke
Dragon Ball (TV)
Dragon Ball Z (TV)
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure
Gewalt ~ Violence

#264
Landay, Lori: The mirror of performance: Kinaesthetics, subjectivity, and the body in film, television, and virtual worlds. In: Cinema Journal 51. 2012. No. 3. [Spring] pp. 129-136.
Description:
[GA:] [End GA] Discusses, among others, James Cameron’s Avatar.
Index:
Cameron, James
Avatar (2009)
Spiegel ~ Mirror
Körper ~ Bodies
Fernsehen ~ Television
Cyberspace ~ Cyberspace
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Action ~ Action

#265
Lane, Christina: From The Loveless to Point Break: Kathryn Bigelow’s trajectory in action. In: Cinema Journal 37. 1998. No. 4. [Summer] pp. 59-81.
Index:
Bigelow, Kathryn
Montgomery, Monty
Loveless, The / Breakdown (1982)
Point Break (1991)
Action ~ Action

#266
Lawrence, K.: The female action hero and her fans: A case study of Xena: Warrior Princess. - Coventry: University of Coventry, Ph.D. 2005. [Abstract in Index to Theses with Abstracts 55. 2006. No. 2. p. 354(55-2852).]
Index:
Xena: Warrior Princess (TV)
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#267
Lee, Christina: Lock and load(up): The action body in The Matrix. In: Continuum 19. 2005. No. 4. [December] pp. 559-569.
Index:
Wachowski, Andy
Wachowski, Larry
Matrix, The (Filmreihe)
Körper ~ Bodies
Action ~ Action

#268
Legt euch nicht mit denen an! In: EPD Film 28. 2011. No. 4. [April] pp. 28-33.
Description:
On recent action heroes.
Index:
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#269
Lehman, Christopher P.: African American representation through the combination of live action and animation. In: Animating film theory. Edited by Karen Beckman. - Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press 2014. p. ?P.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Afrika ~ Africa
Action ~ Action
Animation ~ Animation

#270
Lehtinen, Lauri: Vakivaltaa tekevät naiset: Väärää sukupuolta vaaren vyöhykkeellä. In: Filmihullu 1995. No. 5. [?D] pp. 36-39.
Description:
On female action and horror film directors.
Index:
Horror ~ Horror
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#271
Lichtenfeld, Eric: Action speaks louder: Violence, spectacle, and the American action movie. Foreword by Richard Slotkin. - Westport, Connecticut; London: Praeger 2004.
Reviews:
Brintnall, Kent L.: [untitled] In: Film Quarterly 60. 2007. No. 4. [Summer] pp. 84-85.
Description:
Includes chapters on robots, on the body as weapon, on action in fantastic film and on disaster movies.
Index:
Körper ~ Bodies
Roboter ~ Robots
Katastrophen ~ Disasters
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#272
Lichtenfeld, Eric: Action speaks louder: Violence, spectacle, and the American action movie. New edition. - Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 2007.
First edition:
[2004]
Description:
Includes chapters on robots, on the body as weapon, on action in fantastic film and on disaster movies.
Index:
Körper ~ Bodies
Roboter ~ Robots
Katastrophen ~ Disasters
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#273
Liu Wei: Action man. In: China Daily, January 14, 2010. p. 18.
Description:
On director and martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping who worked for many action films including the Matrix series and Lee Ang’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, focusing on his latest martial arts epos True Legend.
Index:
Yuen Woo-ping
Wachowski, Andy
Wachowski, Larry
Lee Ang
Matrix, The (Filmreihe)
Wo hu zang long / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Su qi er / True Legend (2010)
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Action ~ Action

#274
Locke, Brian: Three’s a crowd: The racial triangle of "white", "black", and "Asian" men in post-World War Two United States culture. - Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University, Ph.D. 2000. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 61. 2001. No. 9. (March) p. 3626.]
Description:
Includes chapters on race in the science fiction and the action film. Discusses, among others, both versions of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner.
Index:
Scott, Ridley
Blade Runner - The Director’s Cut (1982/1991)
Ethnie ~ Ethnicity
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Politik ~ Politics
Krieg ~ War
Asien ~ Asia
Action ~ Action

#275
Lodge, Mary Jo: Knocked up, not knocked out: Xena: Warrior Princess, pregnant action hero. In: Heroes of film, comics and American culture: Essays on real and fictional defenders of home. Edited by Lisa M. DeTora. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Xena: Warrior Princess (TV)
Mutter ~ Mothers
Action ~ Action
Helden ~ Heros
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)

#276
Logan, Bey: Hong Kong action cinema. - Woodstock: Overlook Press 1996.
First edition:
[London: Titan Books 1995]
Description:
Discusses, among others, the work of Bruce Lee, John Woo, Jackie Chan, Ching Siu Tung, Chow Yun Fat and Tsui Hark.
Index:
Lee, Bruce
Wu Su-Yum [Pseudonym: Woo, John]
Chan, Jackie
Ching Siu-Tung
Chow Yun Fat
Xu Ke [Pseudonym: Tsui Hark]
Action ~ Action
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong

#277
Logan, Bey: Hong Kong action cinema. - London: Titan Books 1995.
Reviews:
Ingram, Bruce: [untitled] In: Outré ?G. 1997. No. 8. [?D] pp. 15-16.
Kaltenecker, Siegfried: [untitled] In: Medienwissenschaft 1997. No. 4. pp. 498-499.
Description:
Discusses, among others, the work of Bruce Lee, John Woo, Jackie Chan, Ching Siu Tung, Chow Yun Fat and Tsui Hark.
Index:
Lee, Bruce
Wu Su-Yum [Pseudonym: Woo, John]
Chan, Jackie
Ching Siu-Tung
Chow Yun Fat
Xu Ke [Pseudonym: Tsui Hark]
Action ~ Action
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong

#278
Lötscher, Christine: Kampfkunst als Kinokunst: Das Denken der Bilder in Hongkong-Martial-Arts-Filmen. In: Action! Artefakt, Ereignis, Erlebnis. Hrsg. von Ingrid Tomkowiak, Brigitte Frizzoni und Manuel Trummer. - Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017. (= Kulturen populärer Unterhaltung und Vergnügung 4.) pp. 29 ff.
Index:
Kunst ~ Arts, The
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Action ~ Action

#279
Love, Damien: "The greatest movie the world has never seen": Peter Bogdanovich and Joseph McBride on Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind. In: Action! Interviews with directors from classical Hollywood to contemporary Iran. Edited by Garry Morris. Foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum. - London; New York: Anthem Press 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Welles, Orson
Bogdanovich, Peter
McBride, Joseph
Other Side of the Wind, The (o.J.)
Action ~ Action

#280
Love, Damien: Nearer my Corman to Thee: Roger Corman, Bruce Dern, and David Carradine. In: Action! Interviews with directors from classical Hollywood to contemporary Iran. Edited by Garry Morris. Foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum. - London; New York: Anthem Press 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Corman, Roger
Dern, Bruce
Carradine, David
Action ~ Action

#281
Lucas, Tim: Nozone - Direct action hero: French documentarian Chris Marker. In: Sight and Sound NS 18. 2008. No. 6. [June] p. 88.
Description:
DVD review.
Index:
Marker, Chris
Helden ~ Heros
Frankreich ~ France
DVD ~ DVD
Dokumentarfilm ~ Documentary Film
Action ~ Action

#282
Lummerding, Susanne / Rieser, Susanne: Romeo must die: Action and agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films. In: World weavers: Globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution. Edited by Wong Kin Yuen, Gary Westfahl and Amy Kit-sze Chan. - Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press 2005. p. ?P.
Index:
Globalisierung ~ Globalization
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Action ~ Action
Cyberspace ~ Cyberspace
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction

#283
Lynch, Joan D.: Love in action and contemplation. In: The Christian Century 104. 1987. No. ?N. [March 18] pp. 260-261.
Index:
Religion ~ Religion
Action ~ Action

#284
Lyons, Mike: Space Jam: The loneley tunes face off with the NBA in cutting-edge live-action animation. In: Cinefantastique 28. 1996. No. 4/5. [November] pp. 7-9.
Index:
Pytka, Joe
Space Jam (1996)
NBA ~ NBA
Action ~ Action
Animation ~ Animation

#285
Lyons, Mike: Space Jam: This animated live-action combo brings a Looney Tunes basketball dream team to life. In: Cinefantastique 28. 1996. No. 6. [December] pp. 10-11, 13.
Index:
Pytka, Joe
Space Jam (1996)
Sport ~ Sports
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#286
Ma, Jean: Circuitous action: Revenge cinema. In: Criticism 57. 2015. No. 1. [?D] pp. 47-70.
Index:
Tarantino, Quentin
Kill Bill (Filmreihe)
Action ~ Action

#287
Magid, Ron: Boss Film revs up action scenes. In: American Cinematographer 75. 1994. No. 12. [December] pp. 72-74.
Description:
On the work of the "Boss Film" company for James Cameron’s True Lies.
Index:
Cameron, James
True Lies (1994)
Boss [Firma] ~ Boss [Company]
Action ~ Action

#288
Magid, Ron: Hardcore action. In: American Cinematographer 83. 2002. No. 8. [August] pp. 54-56, 59-65.
Description:
On the special effects for Rob Cohen’s XXX, especially on the camera work of Dean Semler.
Index:
Cohen, Rob
Semler, Dean
XXX (2002)
Technik: Kamera ~ Technology: Camera
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Action ~ Action

#289
Magid, Ron: ILM gets a piece of the action. In: American Cinematographer 73. 1992. No. 1. [January] pp. 58-65.
Description:
On the special effects for the film Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country
Index:
Meyer, Nicholas
Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Action ~ Action
ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) ~ ILM (Industrial Light and Magic)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects

#290
Mannsperger, Georg: James Bond will return: Der serielle Charakter der James-Bond-Filme: Wiederkehrende Elemente in 40 Jahren Action-Kino. - Mainz: Universität Mainz, Dissertation 2003.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
James Bond ~ James Bond
Action ~ Action

#291
Mao Renjie: Action hero’s acting mission. In: Global Times, January 28, 2010. p. 17.
Description:
On martial arts star Donnie Yen.
Index:
Yen, Donnie
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#292
Maraini, Toni: "For a kind of pleasure": Federico Fellini. Translated by A. K. Bierman. In: Action! Interviews with directors from classical Hollywood to contemporary Iran. Edited by Garry Morris. Foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum. - London; New York: Anthem Press 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Fellini, Federico
Action ~ Action

#293
Marquez, José: Lights! Camera! Action! In: Mel Gibson’s Bible: Religion, popular culture, and The Passion of the Christ. Edited by Timothy K. Beal and Tod Linafelt. - Chicago, Illinois; London: University of Chicago Press 2006. (= Afterlives of the Bible.) p. ?P.
Index:
Gibson, Mel
Passion of the Christ, The (2004)
Technik: Kamera ~ Technology: Camera
Action ~ Action
Religion ~ Religion

#294
Martig, Charles: Populäres Kino als Opferritual: Mimetische Rivalität im Genre des Action- und Science-Fiction-Films. In: Gewaltige Opfer: Filmgespräche mit René Girard und Lars von Trier. Hrsg. von Leo Karrer. - Köln: Katholisches Institut für Medieninformation (KIM) 2000. (= Film und Theologie 1.) pp. 29 ff.
Index:
Girard, René
von Trier, Lars
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Action ~ Action
Religion ~ Religion
Opfer ~ Sacrifice
Gewalt ~ Violence

#295
Matthews, Tom: Die Hard lasts forever - How Jeb Stuart and Steven de Souza turn a lone cop on Christmas Eve into a new kind of action hero. In: Creative Screenwriting 13. 2006. No. 6. [?D] pp. 71-75.
Index:
McTiernan, John
Stuart, Jeb
de Souza, Steven E.
Die Hard (1988)
Religion ~ Religion
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#296
McCarthy, Todd: Actions straight up. In: Variety 381. 2000. No. 3. [December 4] pp. 21, 26.
Description:
On Martin Campbell’s Vertical Limit.
Index:
Campbell, Martin
Vertical Limit (2000)
Action ~ Action

#297
McCarthy, Todd: Revved-up "machines" delivers the action. In: Variety 391. 2003. No. 7. [June 30] pp. 23, 29.
Description:
On Jonathan Mostow’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
Index:
Mostow, Jonathan
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Action ~ Action

#298
McDonagh, Maitland: Action Painter: John Woo. In: Film Comment 29. 1993. No. 5. [September/October] pp. 46-49.
Index:
Wu Su-Yum [Pseudonym: Woo, John]
Action ~ Action

#299
McKahan, Jason Grant: Hollywood counterterrorism: Violence, protest and the Middle East in U.S. action feature films. - Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, Ph.D. 2009. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 71. 2010. No. 3. (September).]
Index:
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action
Politik ~ Politics

#300
McLean, Tom: Mutated tech brings laughs, action to Turtles. In: Animation 28. 2014. No. 7. [August/September] pp. 10-14.
Description:
On the special effects for Jonathan Liebesman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Index:
Liebesman, Jonathan
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Schildkröten ~ Turtles
Humor ~ Humor
Action ~ Action

#301
McSweeney, Terence: The "war on terror" and American film 9/11 frames per second. - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2014.
Description:
On political subtexts in recent American action, superhero, alien-invasion and zombie film.
Index:
Zombies ~ Zombies
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Politik ~ Politics
Krieg ~ War
Helden ~ Heros
Aliens ~ Aliens
Action ~ Action

#302
"Mehr Action, mehr Spannung". In: Der Spiegel 52. 1998. No. 19. [May 4] p. 194.
Description:
Interview with Wim Wenders on City of Angels, the US remake of Der Himmel über Berlin.
Index:
Wenders, Wim
Silberling, Brad
Himmel über Berlin, Der (1987)
City of Angels (1998)
Action ~ Action
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Thriller ~ Thriller

#303
Meisel, Myron: Badham / Cohen combo sparks Universal action. In: Film Journal 93. 1990. No. ?N. [June] pp. 12 ff.
Index:
Badham, John
Cohen, Rob
Universal [Firma] ~ Universal [Company]
Action ~ Action

#304
Mel Gibson in der Drogen-Klemme: Schicksal aus Zeichnerhand. In: Geheim. Hrsg. von Dirk Manthey und Jörg Altendorf. Autoren: Christian Hellmann, Artur Jung, Andreas Kern und Richard Pleuger. - Hamburg: Kino Verlag 1990. (= Cinema Filmbuch.) pp. 157-162.
Description:
On the storyboard designer Sherman Labby who worked for numerous action films, among them Richard Donner’s Lethal Weapon II and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner.
Index:
Labby, Sherman
Gibson, Mel
Donner, Richard
Scott, Ridley
Lethal Weapon II (1988)
Blade Runner (1982)
Drogen ~ Drugs
Action ~ Action

#305
Meyer, Christian: Der Glanz der (Ober-)Fläche: Wie aus der Graphic Novel The Surrogates ein Actionspektakel wurde. In: Film-Dienst 63. 2010. No. 2. [January 21] pp. 44-45.
Index:
Venditti, Robert
Weldele, Brett
Mostow, Jonathan
Surrogates (2009)
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Action ~ Action
Surrogates, The (Literatur ~ Literature)

#306
Meyer, Kristin Lund: Star Wars, Episode 1: Les lieux de l’action. - Paris: Nathan 2000.
Index:
Lucas, George
Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Action ~ Action

#307
Mihm, Kai: Star Wars Episode II: Angriff der Klonkrieger: George Lucas setzt weniger auf Charaktere denn auf Action. In: EPD Film 19. 2002. No. 6. [June] p. 46.
Index:
Lucas, George
Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Action ~ Action

#308
Mihm, Kai: The Punisher: Actionkino mit John Travolta. In: EPD Film 21. 2004. No. 6. [June] pp. 44-45.
Index:
Hensleigh, Jonathan
Travolta, John
Punisher, The (2004)
Action ~ Action

#309
Mihm, Kai: Walking Tall: Dwayne Johnson. In: EPD Film 28. 2011. No. 4. [April] p. 32.
Description:
On the action hero.
Index:
Johnson, Dwayne
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#310
Mihm, Kai: Wild Christmas: Nach Ronin wieder spannendes Action-Kino von John Frankenheimer. In: EPD Film 17. 2000. No. 12. [December] p. 34.
Description:
On Reindeer Games
Index:
Frankenheimer, John
Reindeer Games (1999)
Ronin (1998)
Action ~ Action

#311
Mikos, Lothar: Die Faszination des Cyborgs im Actionkino. In: Medien Praktisch ?G. 1995. No. 1(?N). [March] pp. 47-53.
Description:
Discusses, among others, James Cameron’s Terminator II - Judgement Day.
Index:
Cameron, James
Terminator II - Judgement Day (1991)
Roboter ~ Robots
Action ~ Action

#312
Mikos, Lothar: Zur Faszination von Action- und Horrorfilmen. In: Gewaltdarstellungen in den Medien: Theorien, Fakten und Analysen. Hrsg. von Mike Friedrichsen und Gerhard Vowe. - Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1995. pp. 166 ff.
Index:
Horror ~ Horror
Action ~ Action
Gewalt ~ Violence

#313
Mills, Nancy: Blue Steel: Kathryn Bigelow in action. In: Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews. Edited by Peter Keough. - Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi 2013. (= Conversations with filmmakers.) p. ?P.
Index:
Bigelow, Kathryn
Blue Steel (1989)
Action ~ Action

#314
mk: Action - Vampire Down Under: Bloodlust. In: Splatting Image 1993. No. 13. [March] p. 62.
Index:
Hewitt, Jon
Wolstencroft, Richard
Bloodlust (1991)
Vampire ~ Vampires
Australien ~ Australia
Action ~ Action

#315
Das Mord(s)-Programm: Krimis und Action im deutschen Fernsehen. Hrsg. von Claudia Cippitelli und Axel Schwanebeck. - Frankfurt/M.: Gemeinschaftswerk der Evangelischen Publizistik 1998.
Index:
Mord ~ Murder
Kriminalität ~ Crime
Fernsehen ~ Television
Deutschland ~ Germany
Action ~ Action

#316
Morris, Gary: Dialogues with Madwomen: Allie Light. In: Action! Interviews with directors from classical Hollywood to contemporary Iran. Edited by Garry Morris. Foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum. - London; New York: Anthem Press 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Light, Allie
Dialogues with Madwomen (1994)
Wahnsinn ~ Madness
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#317
Moser, Leo: Eastern Lexikon: Chow Yun Fat, Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Jackie Chan und Co.: Das Lexikon des asiatischen Actionfilms. - Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2001.
Index:
Chow Yun Fat
Lee, Bruce
Li, Jet
Chan, Jackie
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Asien ~ Asia
Action ~ Action

#318
Müller, Alexandra / Zinn, Laura: Wer darf’s zertrümmern? Genderkonstruktionen von Action-Heldinnen im Marvel Cinematic Universe als Zusammenspiel der Geschlechter. In: Action! Artefakt, Ereignis, Erlebnis. Hrsg. von Ingrid Tomkowiak, Brigitte Frizzoni und Manuel Trummer. - Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017. (= Kulturen populärer Unterhaltung und Vergnügung 4.) pp. 75 ff.
Index:
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Marvel Comics [Firma] ~ Marvel Comics [Company]
Helden ~ Heros
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#319
Murphree, Hyon Joo Yoo: Cowboys, postmodern heroes, and anti-heroes: The many faces of the alerized white man. - Denton, Texas: University of North Texas, M.A. 2000. [Abstract in: Masters Abstracts International 40. 2002. No. 1. p. 4.]
Description:
On postmodern action heroes in cinema. Discusses especially the films of actor Bruce Willis and director Tim Burton.
Index:
Willis, Bruce
Burton, Tim
Postmoderne ~ Postmodern
Männer ~ Men
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#320
Nath, Ipshita / Pradhan, Anubhav: Nation and action: The case of the Bollywood spy thriller. In: James Bond and popular culture: Essays on the influence of the fictional superspy. Edited by Michele Brittany. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company 2014. p. ?P.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
Thriller ~ Thriller
Bollywood ~ Bollywood
Action ~ Action
Spione ~ Spys
James Bond ~ James Bond

#321
Nazzaro, Giona A.: Action! Forme di un transgenere cinematografico. - Recco: Le Mani 2000. (= Cinema.)
Index:
Action ~ Action

#322
Nazzaro, Giona A. / Tagliacozzo, Andrea: John Woo: La nuova leggenda del cinema d’azione. - Roma: Castelvecchi 2000. (= Contatti 199.)
Index:
Wu Su-Yum [Pseudonym: Woo, John]
Action ~ Action

#323
Neale, Steve: Action-adventure as Hollywood genre. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#324
Neue Helden für die Kleinen: Das (un)heimliche Kinderprogramm des Fernsehens. Hrsg. von Ingrid Paus-Haase. - Münster; Hamburg: Lit Verlag 1991. (= Medien, Kommunikation 16.)
Reviews:
Rickert, Ludwig: [untitled] In: Medien und Erziehung 36. 1992. No. 3. [?D] p. 179.
Description:
Discusses also fantastic action and comic films.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Helden ~ Heros
Jugend ~ Youth
Fernsehen ~ Television
Animation ~ Animation

#325
Neue Helden für die Kleinen: Das (un)heimliche Kinderprogramm des Fernsehens. Hrsg. von Ingrid Paus-Haase. 2. überarbeitete Auflage. - Münster; Hamburg: Lit Verlag 1992. (= Medien, Kommunikation 16.)
First edition:
[1991]
Description:
Discusses also fantastic action and comic films.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Helden ~ Heros
Jugend ~ Youth
Fernsehen ~ Television
Animation ~ Animation

#326
Neumann, Hans Joachim: Abenteuer und Action in Film, Literatur und Comics. - Frankfurt/M., Berlin: Ullstein 1987. (= Populäre Kultur. Ullstein-Sachbuch 36542.)
Reviews:
Rauh, Reinhold: [untitled] In: Medienwissenschaft 1988. No. 3. pp. 338-340.
Index:
Literatur ~ Literature
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#327
Nico, B. / Snoek, Sonja: Symfonieën van bloed, vuur en kogels / The weird world of Asian cinema. In: Skrien 1993/1994. No. 193. [?D] pp. 12-17.
Description:
On Hong Kong action films.
Index:
Blut ~ Blood
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Asien ~ Asia
Action ~ Action

#328
Nöding, Oliver: Krankheit und Heilmittel: Der Serienmörder im Actionfilm der 1980er Jahre. In: Killer/Culture - Serienmord in der populären Kultur. Hrsg. von Stefan Höltgen und Michael Wetzel. - Berlin: Bertz+Fischer 2010. (= Medien/Kultur 1.) pp. 110 ff.
Index:
Krankheit ~ Illness
Action ~ Action
Mord ~ Murder

#329
O’Day, Marc: Beauty in motion: Gender, spectacle and action babe cinema. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#330
Ochoa, L.: An affection for violence. In: American Film 14. 1988. No. 2. [?D] pp. 44-47.
Description:
Scriptwriter Hilary Henkin on her passion for violent and action films.
Index:
Henkin, Hilary
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#331
Orlin, Scott: Gegen Gewalt, für Action! In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1993. No. 10(185). [?D] p. 31.
Description:
Interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger on his role in John McTiernan’s Last Action Hero.
Index:
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
McTiernan, John
Last Action Hero (1993)
Action ~ Action
Gewalt ~ Violence

#332
Orlin, Scott / Stahl, Eric: "Actionfilme sind nichts für Kinder!" In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1996. No. 8(219). [?D] p. 98.
Description:
Interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger, especially on his role in Charles Russell’s Eraser.
Index:
Russell, Charles
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Eraser (1996)
Action ~ Action
Jugend ~ Youth

#333
Orth, Dominik: Revisionen des Actionhelden: Eine Genreanalyse der Mission: Impossible-Reihe. In: Actionkino: Moderne Klassiker des populären Films. Hrsg. von Ingo Irsigler, Gerrit Lembke und Willem Strank. - Berlin: Bertz und Fischer 2014. (= Deep Focus 19.) pp. 95 ff.
Index:
Mission: Impossible (Filmreihe)
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#334
Osteried, Peter: Action-Stars. Band 2: Arnold Schwarzenegger und seine Filme. - Hille: MPW 2011.
Index:
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Action ~ Action

#335
Osteried, Peter: Top Movies - Mad Max: Mad Max ist Action-Mythos!. - Hille: MPW 2012. (= Moviestar-Sonderband / MPW Filmbibliothek / MPW-Buch.)
Index:
Miller, George
Mad Max (Filmreihe)
Mad Max (1979)
Mad Max II / Road Warrior, The (1981)
Mad Max beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Mythologie ~ Mythology
Action ~ Action

#336
Pabst, Eckhard: Die beste aller möglichen Welten: James Camerons The Terminator und Terminator 2: Judgment Day. In: Actionkino: Moderne Klassiker des populären Films. Hrsg. von Ingo Irsigler, Gerrit Lembke und Willem Strank. - Berlin: Bertz und Fischer 2014. (= Deep Focus 19.) pp. 60 ff.
Index:
Cameron, James
Terminator, The (1984)
Terminator II - Judgement Day (1991)
Action ~ Action

#337
Palmer, Lorrie: Cranked masculinity: Hypermediation in digital action cinema. In: Cinema Journal 51. 2012. No. 4. [Summer] pp. 1-25.
Description:
/ Lorrie Palmer [Crank + Crank 2]
Index:
Neveldine, Mark
Taylor, Brian
Crank (2006)
Crank 2: High Voltage (2009)
Technik: Computer ~ Technology: Computer
Männer ~ Men
Action ~ Action

#338
Park, Jane C. H.: Virtual race: The racially ambiguous action hero in The Matrix and Pitch Black. In: Mixed race Hollywood. Edited by Mary Beltrán and Camilla Fojas. - New York: New York University Press 2008. pp. 249 ff.
Index:
Wachowski, Andy
Wachowski, Larry
Twohy, David
Matrix, The (Filmreihe)
Pitch Black (2000)
Ethnie ~ Ethnicity
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Helden ~ Heros
Cyberspace ~ Cyberspace
Action ~ Action

#339
Parpart, Lee: "Action, chicks, everything": On-line interviews with male fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In: Athena’s daughters: Television’s new women warriors. Edited by Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy. - Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press 2003. (= The Television.) pp. 78-91.
Index:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)
Männer ~ Men
Action ~ Action
Krieg ~ War
Frauen ~ Women
Fernsehen ~ Television

#340
Patton, Phil: The first action hero. In: Esquire 120. 1993. No. ?N. [July] pp. 106-107.
Description:
On Steven Spielbergs dinosaur film Jurassic Park.
Index:
Spielberg, Steven
Jurassic Park (1993)
Dinosaurier ~ Dinosaurs
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#341
Paus-Haase, Ingrid: Betr.: Captain Planet: Umweltbewußtsein durch einen Action-Cartoon? In: Medien Praktisch 19. 1995. No. 4(76) [?D] pp. 58-59.
Index:
Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV)
Natur ~ Nature
Action ~ Action
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons

#342
Paus-Haase, Ingrid: Zur Faszination von Action-Serien und Action-Cartoons für Kindergarten- und Grundschulkinder. In: Media Perspektiven 1991. No. 10. pp. 672-680.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Jugend ~ Youth
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons

#343
Pavlovic, Milan: Die fünfte amerikanische Action-Heldin: Ein Gespräch mit Sandra Bullock. In: Steadycam 1994. No. 3(28). [?D] pp. 20-23.
Description:
Especially on her role in Jan De Bont’s Speed.
Index:
Bullock, Sandra
De Bont, Jan
Speed (1994)
Helden ~ Heros
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Action ~ Action

#344
Persons, Dan: Hypernauts: Launching ABC saturdays into a universe of action. In: Cinefantastique 28. 1996. No. 2. [September] pp. 40-43, 61.
Index:
Hypernauts (TV)
Weltraum ~ Space
Action ~ Action
ABC ~ ABC

#345
Persons, Dan: Terminator 2 3-D: Filming Universal Studio’s live-action/3-D mind-melter. In: Cinefantastique 28. 1996. No. 4/5. [November] pp. 112-116, 118-120.
Index:
Cameron, James
Terminator II 3-D (1996)
3-D Films
Universal [Firma] ~ Universal [Company]
Action ~ Action

#346
Petek, Polona: Belles with attitude: Genealogies of the new Hollywood wisecracking action heroine. In: Women willing to fight: The fighting woman in film. Edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick. - Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2007.
Index:
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#347
Phantastik, Parodie und Phantasie: Arnies neue Actionfilm-Dimension: Last Action Hero. In: Moviestar 1. 1993. No. 3. [Oktober/November] pp. 16-17.
Index:
McTiernan, John
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Last Action Hero (1993)
Humor ~ Humor
Phantasie ~ Fantasy
Action ~ Action

#348
Pheasant-Kelly, Frances: Reframing the Cold War in the twenty-first century: Action, nostalgia and nuclear holocaust in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In: Pheasant-Kelly, Frances: Fantasy film post 9/11. - New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2013. p. ?P.
Index:
Spielberg, Steven
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Krieg ~ War
Holocaust ~ Holocaust
Atom ~ Nuclear
Action ~ Action
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Politik ~ Politics

#349
Pinkerton, Nick: The kill list. In: Sight and Sound NS 24. 2014. No. 8. [August] pp. 30-34.
Description:
On the history of the action movie.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#350
Pinkerton, Nick: The world in action. In: Sight and Sound NS 25. 2015. No. 1. [January] p. 42.
Description:
On 2014 action films.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#351
Pinkerton, Nick: The year in ... action films. In: Sight and Sound NS 26. 2016. No. 1. [January] p. 51.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#352
Pitz, Evamarie: Johnny To - Running out of time. - München: GRIN Verlag 2001.
Index:
To, Johnnie
Action ~ Action

#353
Plazewski, Jerzy: Czy "Nowa Przygoda" zdobedzie monopol na kino swiatowe? In: Kino [Warschau] 24. 1990. No. 1(271). [January] pp. 1-8, 21-32.
Description:
On cross-genre action films which combine elements from the adventure movie with science fiction or horror. Discusses, among others, the Jaws and the Star Wars series.
Index:
Jaws (Filmreihe)
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Horror ~ Horror
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#354
Poliquin, Joy: Heroes on the home front: Heroism and virtue in post-9/11 American cinema. - St. Catharines, Ontario: Brock University (Canada), M.A. 2008. [Abstract in: MAI 47/04, Aug 2009]
Description:
Discusses, among others, ideologiacal and political subtexts in post-9/11 war and action films like Andrew Davis’s Collateral Damage, Tony Scott’s Man on Fire and Jonathan Hensleigh’s The Punisher.
Index:
Davis, Andrew
Scott, Tony
Hensleigh, Jonathan
Collateral Damage (2001)
Man on Fire (2004)
Punisher, The (2004)
Politik ~ Politics
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Politik ~ Politics
Krieg ~ War
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#355
Pollnick, Yvonne: Der Terminator als Messias: Amerikanisches Actionkino als
moderner Kulturträger. - Mannheim: Universität Mannheim, Magisterarbeit 1994.
Index:
Terminator (Filmreihe)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Religion ~ Religion
Action ~ Action

#356
Pollnick, Yvonne: Der Terminator als Messias: Amerikanisches Actionkino als
moderner Kulturträger. - Taunusstein: Driesen 2001. (= Driesen Edition Wissenschaft.)
Index:
Terminator (Filmreihe)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Religion ~ Religion
Action ~ Action

#357
Pollnick, Yvonne: Der Terminator als Messias: Amerikanisches Actionkino als
moderner Kulturträger. 2. Auflage. - Taunusstein: Driesen 2009. (= Driesen Edition Wissenschaft.)
Index:
Terminator (Filmreihe)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Religion ~ Religion
Action ~ Action

#358
Pomerance, Murray: A great fall: Action north by sincerity northwest. In: Pomerance, Murray: An eye for Hitchcock. - New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Hitchcock, Alfred
North by Northwest (1959)
Augen ~ Eyes
Action ~ Action

#359
Pope, Richard: Doing justice: A ritual-psychoanalytic approach to postmodern melodrama and a certain tendency of the action film. In: Cinema Journal 51. 2012. No. 2. [Winter] pp. 113-136.
Index:
Psychologie ~ Psychology
Postmoderne ~ Postmodern
Justiz ~ Justice
Action ~ Action

#360
Prince, Stephen: Action and abstraction in Ronin. In: A little solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American film. Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer. - New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Frankenheimer, John
Ronin (1998)
Action ~ Action
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)

#361
Prince, Stephen: Genre and violence in the work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Kurosawa, Akira
Peckinpah, Sam
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#362
Purse, L.: Return of the "angry woman": Authenticating female physical action in contemporary cinema. In: Women on screen: Feminism and femininity in visual culture. Edited by Melanie Waters. - Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Frauen ~ Women

#363
Purse, L. V.: The body as spectacle in contemporary American action cinema. - Reading: University of Reading, Ph.D. 2006. [Abstract in: Index to Theses with Abstracts 56. 2007. No. 2. p. 354(56-2914).
Description:
Discusses the representation of the body in The Matrix by Andy and Larry Wachowski, Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, Simon West’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, the two Kill Bill films by Quentin Tarantino, Stephen Norrington’s Blade, Lee Ang’s The Hulk and in the Spider-Man and the X-Men series.
Index:
Wachowski, Andy
Wachowski, Larry
Spielberg, Steven
West, Simon
Tarantino, Quentin
Norrington, Stephen
Lee Ang
Matrix, The (1999)
Minority Report (2002)
Tomb Raider / Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)
Kill Bill Volume 2 (2004)
Blade (1998)
Hulk, The (2003)
Spider-Man (Filmreihe)
X-Men (Filmreihe)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Körper ~ Bodies
Action ~ Action

#364
Purse, Lisa: Digital heroes in contemporary Hollywood: Exertion, identification, and the virtual action body. In: Film Criticism 32. 2007. No. 1. [Fall] pp. 5-25.
Index:
Technik: Computer ~ Technology: Computer
Körper ~ Bodies
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Helden ~ Heros
Cyberspace ~ Cyberspace
Action ~ Action

#365
Rabin, Nathan: My year of flops: The A.V. Club presents one man’s journey deep into the heart of cinematic failure. - New York: Scribner 2010.
Description:
Includes a chapter on superheroes, science fiction, and action film.
Index:
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#366
Ranze, Michael: Lucy: Irrwitziger Actionfilm mit Scarlett Johansson als Überfrau. In: Film-Dienst 67. 2014. No. 17. [August 14] p. 37.
Index:
Besson, Luc
Johansson, Scarlett
Lucy (2014)
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#367
Raschke, Petra: Dekorative Opfer: Eine Inhaltsanalyse zum Frauenbild in TV-Action-Serien. - Münster: Universität Münster, Institut für Publizistik, Magisterarbeit ?J (1992/1993).
Index:
Opfer ~ Sacrifice
Action ~ Action
Fernsehen ~ Television
Frauen ~ Women

#368
Rasmussen, Tove Arendt: Actionfilm og drengekultur. - Aalborg: Aalborg Universitet, Institut for Kommunikation 1990.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#369
Rasmussen, Tove Arendt: Actionfilm og drengekultur. 2. ed. - Aalborg: Aalborg Universitet, Institut for Kommunikation 1995.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#370
Rauen, Christoph: Übermann, Übermensch, Übermutter: Kill Bill als Rache- und Familienfilm. In: Actionkino: Moderne Klassiker des populären Films. Hrsg. von Ingo Irsigler, Gerrit Lembke und Willem Strank. - Berlin: Bertz und Fischer 2014. (= Deep Focus 19.) pp. 111 ff.
Index:
Tarantino, Quentin
Kill Bill (Filmreihe)
Mutter ~ Mothers
Helden ~ Heros
Familie ~ Family
Action ~ Action

#371
Raum-Deinzer, Uwe: James Cameron: Vom Action-Regisseur zum König von Hollywood. In: Moviestar 5. 1998. No. 5(40). [?D] pp. 40-51.
Index:
Cameron, James
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Action ~ Action

#372
Raum-Deinzer, Uwe: Vom Action-Game zum Spielfilm: Double Dragon - Die 5. Dimension. In: Moviestar 3. 1995. No. 16. [?D] p. 58.
Description:
On the film by James Yukich.
Index:
Yukich, James
Double Dragon (1995)
Action ~ Action

#373
Rauscher, Andreas: Im Angesicht der Postmoderne: James Bond und der post-klassische Actionfilm. In: Mythos 007: Die James-Bond-Filme im Fokus der Popkultur. Hrsg. von Andreas Rauscher, Cord Krüger, Georg Mannsperger und Bernd Zywietz. - Mainz: Bender 2007. pp. 102 ff.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
Postmoderne ~ Postmodern
Action ~ Action
James Bond ~ James Bond

#374
Rayns, T.: King Kong. In: Time Out 1994. No. 1240. [?D] p. 66.
Description:
On the Hong Kong action film.
Index:
King Kong ~ King Kong
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Action ~ Action

#375
Reed, Joseph W.: American scenarios: The uses of film genre. - Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press 1989.
Reviews:
Berger, Arthur Asa: [untitled] In: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 12. 1992. No. 2. [?D] pp. 184-185.
Description:
Discusses also the science fiction, horror and action film.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Action ~ Action
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Horror ~ Horror

#376
Reid, Craig: Black Mask: Bizarre fantasy action, Hong Kong style. In: Cinefantastique 31. 1999. No. 5. [May] pp. 58-61.
Index:
Lee, Daniel
Hei xia (1996)
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Action ~ Action

#377
Reid, Craig D.: Fighting without fighting: Film action fight choreography. In: Film Quarterly 47. 1993/1994. No. 2. [Winter] pp. 30-35.
Description:
On martial arts films.
Index:
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Action ~ Action

#378
Reid, Craig D.: Six-String Samurai: Low-budget post-apocalypse flick does anime action live. In: Cinefantastique 30. 1998. No. 7/8. [October] pp. 52-53.
Index:
Mungia, Lance
Six-String Samurai (1998)
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Religion: Apokalypse ~ Religion: Apocalypse
Action ~ Action

#379
Reid, Craig: Face/Off: Hong Kong helmer John Woo scores with this science-fiction themed action flick. In: Cinefantastique 29. 1997. No. 8. [December] pp. 44-46.
Index:
Wu Su-Yum [Pseudonym: Woo, John]
Face/Off (1997)
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Action ~ Action

#380
Reid, Craig: Mr. Magoo: Premier Hong Kong action director makes his Hollywood directional debut. In: Cinefantastique 29. 1998. No. 9. [January] pp. 10-11.
Index:
Tong, Stanley
Mr. Magoo (1997)
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Action ~ Action

#381
Reumüller, Barbara: Zwischen Ma(i)nstream und androgyn-ambivalenter Action oder wenn Mikro-, Makro-, Super- und Sub-Elemente in der Filmanalyse miteinander kämpfen: Blue Steel von Kathryn Bigelow. In: Mörderinnen im Film. Hrsg. von der FrauenFilmInitiative. - Berlin: Elefanten Press 1992. (= Elefanten Press 447.) pp. 12-14.
Index:
Bigelow, Kathryn
Blue Steel (1989)
Frauen ~ Women
Sexualität: Androgynität ~ Sexuality: Androgynity
Action ~ Action
Mord ~ Murder

#382
Reynaud, Bérénice: "I can’t sell my acting like that". In: Sight and Sound NS 7. 1997. No. 3. [March] pp. 24-26.
Description:
On Hong Kong action actress Maggie Cheung and her role in Olivier Assayas’s Irma Vep.
Index:
Cheung, Maggie
Assayas, Olivier
Irma Vep (1996)
Action ~ Action
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong

#383
Reynaud, Bérénice: John Woo’s art action movie. In: Sight and Sound NS 3. 1993. No. 5. [May] pp. 22-24.
Description:
On the collaboration between the director and main actor Jean-Claude Van Damme for Hard Target.
Index:
Wu Su-Yum [Pseudonym: Woo, John]
Van Damme, Jean Claude
Hard Target (1993)
Action ~ Action

#384
Richter, Sebastian: Digitaler Realismus: Zwischen Computeranimation und Live-Action: Die neue Bildästhetik in Spielfilmen. - Frankfurt/Main: Universität Frankfurt, Dissertation ?J (2008).
Index:
Technik: Computer ~ Technology: Computer
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#385
Richter, Sebastian: Digitaler Realismus: Zwischen Computeranimation und Live-Action: Die neue Bildästhetik in Spielfilmen. - Bielefeld: Transcript 2008.
Index:
Technik: Computer ~ Technology: Computer
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#386
Rist, Peter: Scenes of "in-action" and "noir": Characteristics in the films of Johnnie To. In: Hong Kong film, Hollywood, and the new global cinema: No film is an island. Edited by Gina Marchetti and Tan See Kam. - Abingdon; New York: Routledge 2006. (= Routledge media, culture, and social change in Asia 6.) p. ?P.
Index:
To, Johnnie
Film Noir ~ Film Noir
Action ~ Action
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#387
Ritter, Vera: Entwicklung des Action-Kinos in Hollywood am Beispiel von Terminator. - Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Magisterarbeit ?J (1994/1995).
Index:
Terminator (Filmreihe)
Action ~ Action
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#388
Römers, Holger: Big Game: Actionfilm. In: Film-Dienst 68. 2015. No. 12. [June 11] p. 51.
Index:
Helander, Jalmari
Big Game (2014)
Action ~ Action

#389
Roschy, Birgit: Helden sterben nicht ... In: EPD Film 25. 2008. No. 3. [March] pp. 14-16.
Description:
On new films by older action stars which became famous in the late 1970s and during the 1980s . Discusses, among others, the careers of Harrison Ford, Bruce Willis, Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone.
Index:
Ford, Harrison
Willis, Bruce
Russell, Kurt
Stallone, Sylvester
Tod ~ Death
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#390
Rosner, Heiko: Das Ende der Terminatoren. In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1997. No. 7(230). [?D] pp. 56-59.
Description:
On changing trends in the contemporary action film.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#391
Rosner, Heiko: Der letzte Action-Hero. In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1993. No. 10(185). [?D] pp. 22-28, 30, 32.
Description:
On John McTiernan’s Last Action Hero and on the leading actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Index:
McTiernan, John
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Last Action Hero (1993)
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#392
Rosner, Heiko: Die Hexer der Computermagie: Die Tricks von "Action-Held". In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1993. No. 10(185). [?D] pp. 28-30.
Description:
On the special effects by Robert and Richard Greenberg and their company RGS for John McTiernan’s Last Action Hero.
Index:
McTiernan, John
Greenberg, Richard
Greenberg, Robert
Last Action Hero (1993)
Magie ~ Magic
Helden ~ Heros
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Technik: Computer ~ Technology: Computer
RGA ~ RGA
Action ~ Action
Technik ~ Technology

#393
Rother, Rainer: Mit Verlusten ist zu rechnen: Notizen zum amerikanischen Actionfilm. In: Merkur 52. 1998. No. 9/10(594/595). [?D] pp. 852-863.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Action ~ Action

#394
Rudowsky, Catherine A.: Movie genre effects on destination image, place familiarity, and visitation interest among undergraduate students: A film tourism study. - Indiana County, Pennsylvania: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. 2013. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 75. 2013. No. 3. [?D].
Description:
Discusses, among others, the psychological impacts of action and horror movies.
Index:
Psychologie ~ Psychology
Pädagogik ~ Paedagogy
Horror ~ Horror
Action ~ Action

#395
Ryan, Mark David: A silver bullet for Australian cinema? Genre movies and the audience debate. In: Studies in Australasian Cinema 6. 2012. No. 2. [?D] pp. 141-157.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Australian action, adventure, horror and science fiction film.
Index:
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Horror ~ Horror
Australien ~ Australia
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#396
Sack, Adriano: Last Action Hero: Warum Schweine die besseren Menschen sind - und die besseren Abenteuerhelden. In: kulturSpiegel 1999. No. 2. [February] pp. 22-23.
Description:
On the success of the Babe film series.
Index:
Babe (Filmreihe)
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#397
Salter, David Ian: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Effects: Shooting the outer space action motion control. In: Cinefantastique 24. 1993. No. 3/4. [October] p. 105.
Index:
Star Trek - Deep Space Nine (TV)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Weltraum ~ Space
Action ~ Action

#398
Sánchez-Escalonilla, Antonio: Hollywood and the rhetoric of panic: The popular genres of action and fantasy in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 38. 2010. No. 1. [Spring] pp. 10-20.
Index:
Spielberg, Steven
Minority Report (2002)
Politik ~ Politics
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Action ~ Action

#399
Sansweet, Stephen J.: Star Wars: The ultimate action figure collection. - San Francisco: Chronicle Books 2012.
Index:
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Action ~ Action

#400
Sansweet, Steve: Star Wars: Lexikon der Actionfiguren. - Stuttgart: Panini 2012.
Index:
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Action ~ Action

#401
Scapperotti, Dan: Asteroid: Darkman II director Bradford May on delivering big-screen action and effects. In: Cinefantastique 28. 1997. No. 9. [March] pp. 44-46.
Index:
May, Bradford
Darkman II - The Return of Durant (1994)
Asteroid (TV)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Action ~ Action

#402
Schäuble, Martin: Action, Frauen, Superwaffen: In Tomorrow Never Dies zieht 007 Pierce Brosnan wieder alle Register. In: Moviestar 5. 1997. No. 10(33). [October] pp. 16-17.
Index:
Spottiswoode, Roger
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
James Bond ~ James Bond
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#403
Scheuermann, Arne: Zur Theorie des Filmemachens: Flugzeugabstürze, Affekttechniken, Film als rhetorisches Design. - München: Edition Text + Kritik 2009. (= Forschungen zu Film- und Medienwissenschaft.)
Description:
Discusses especially Robert Zemeckis’s Cast Away.
Index:
Zemeckis, Robert
Cast Away (2000)
Action ~ Action

#404
Schickel, Richard: The Matrix reboots: It’s an action film that wants to be a philosophical treatise: But Reloaded can’t have it both ways. In: Time 161. 2003. No. 20. [May 19] pp. 71 ff.
Index:
Wachowski, Andy
Wachowski, Larry
Matrix Reloaded, The (2003)
Philosophie ~ Philosophy
Action ~ Action

#405
Schifferle, Hans: Fantasy Filmfest: Action und Sentiment. In: EPD Film 13. 1996. No. 11. [November] pp. 6-7.
Index:
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Action ~ Action
Festival ~ Festival

#406
Schneider, Karen: With violence if necessary: Rearticulating the family in the contemporary action-thriller. In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 27. 1999. No. 1. [Spring] pp. 2-11.
Description:
Discusses, among others, Roger Donaldson’s Dante’s Peak, Mick Jackson’s Volcano, Steven Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day, John Woo’s Face/Off and Renny Harlin’s The Long Kiss Goodbye.
Index:
Donaldson, Roger
Jackson, Mick
Spielberg, Steven
Emmerich, Roland
Wu Su-Yum [Pseudonym: Woo, John]
Harlin, Renny
Dante’s Peak (1996)
Volcano (1997)
Lost World, The: Jurassic Park (1997)
Independence Day (1996)
Face/Off (1997)
Long Kiss Goodnight, The (1996)
Thriller ~ Thriller
Gewalt ~ Violence
Familie ~ Family
Action ~ Action

#407
Schnelle, Josef: Action-Helden wollen Väter sein: Kinder als rhetorische Figuren im Kino. In: Film-Dienst 55. 2002. No. 17. [August 13] pp. 6-7.
Description:
Discusses, among others, George Lucas’s Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace.
Index:
Lucas, George
Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Jugend ~ Youth
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#408
Schneller, Johanna: Action figure. In: Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews. Edited by Peter Keough. - Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi 2013. (= Conversations with filmmakers.) p. ?P.
Index:
Bigelow, Kathryn
Action ~ Action

#409
Schönlieb, Karin: Camerons Amazonen: "Frau-Sein" als Charakteristikum von Heroismus im Action- Film. - Wien: Universität Wien, Diplom-Arbeit 1997.
Index:
Cameron, James
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#410
Schrackmann, Petra: Heroes out of Time - historisierte Action im Marvel Cinematic Universe. In: Action! Artefakt, Ereignis, Erlebnis. Hrsg. von Ingrid Tomkowiak, Brigitte Frizzoni und Manuel Trummer. - Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017. (= Kulturen populärer Unterhaltung und Vergnügung 4.) pp. 61 ff.
Index:
Marvel Comics [Firma] ~ Marvel Comics [Company]
Helden ~ Heros
Geschichte ~ History
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#411
Schubart, Rikke: Daddy’s action girl: Nikita and the daughter archetype. In: Schubart, Rikke: Super bitches and action babes: The female hero in popular cinema, 1970-2006. - Jefferson, Noth Carolina; London: McFarland & Co. 2007. p. ?P.
Index:
Besson, Luc
Nikita (1990)
Action ~ Action
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women

#412
Schubart, Rikke: Med vold og magt: Action-film fra Dirty Harry til The Matrix. - Köberthavn: Rosinante 2002.
Index:
Siegel, Donald
Wachowski, Andy
Wachowski, Larry
Dirty Harry (1971)
Matrix, The (1999)
Action ~ Action

#413
Schubart, Rikke: Passion og acceleration: Maskulinitet og myte i actionfilmen 1968 - 2000. - Köbenhavn: Köbenhavns Universitet, Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Dissertation 2000.
Index:
Männer ~ Men
Action ~ Action

#414
Schubart, Rikke: Super bitches and action babes: The female hero in popular cinema, 1970-2006. - Jefferson, Noth Carolina: McFarland & Co. 2007.
Reviews:
McMenomy, E. Regina: [untitled.] In: Journal of Popular Culture 41. 2008. No. 5. [?D] pp. 898-899.
Taves, Brian: [untitled.] In: Journal of Film and Video 61. 2009. No. 4. [Winter] pp. 66-68.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women

#415
Schubart, Rikke: The action star persona of Milla Jovovich. In: Schubart, Rikke: Super bitches and action babes: The female hero in popular cinema, 1970-2006. - Jefferson, Noth Carolina: McFarland & Co. 2007. p. ?P.
Index:
Jovovich, Milla
Action ~ Action
Helden ~ Heros
Frauen ~ Women

#416
Schulze Kalthoff, Christian: Chow Yun-Fat, Hongkongs großer Actionstar. In: Moviestar 5. 1998. No. 6(41). [June] p. 38.
Index:
Chow Yun Fat
Action ~ Action
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong

#417
Schulze Kalthoff, Christian: Retroactive: Hyperrasante Action in der Zeitschleife. In: Moviestar 6. 1998. No. 11(46). [November] p. 64.
Index:
Morneau, Louis
Retroactive (1997)
Zeit ~ Time
Action ~ Action

#418
Schwab, Jan Tilman: Die Wiedergeburt eines Unsterblichen: James Bond in Casino Royale. In: Actionkino: Moderne Klassiker des populären Films. Hrsg. von Ingo Irsigler, Gerrit Lembke und Willem Strank. - Berlin: Bertz und Fischer 2014. (= Deep Focus 19.) pp. 123 ff.
Index:
Campbell, Martin
Casino Royale (2006)
James Bond ~ James Bond
Action ~ Action

#419
Schweizerhof, Barbara: Mit Bart und ohne Bart: Gerard Butler. In: EPD Film 28. 2011. No. 4. [April] p. 33.
Description:
On the action hero.
Index:
Butler, Gerard
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#420
Seeßlen, Georg: Bloße Hände, goldene Ernte: Der Action-Film aus Hongkong. In: EPD Film 11. 1994. No. 11. [November] pp. 20-29.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong

#421
Seeßlen, Georg: Eiskalte Engel: Weibliche Stars im Actionfilm. In: EPD Film 20. 2003. No. 7. [July] pp. 22-27.
Description:
Analyses especially the changing female role models in action film.
Index:
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action
Körper ~ Bodies

#422
Seeßlen, Georg: Hongkong-Action. In: EPD Film 12. 1995. No. 3. [March] pp. 15-17.
Description:
On video editions of Hong Kong action films. Discusses especially the work of John Woo.
Index:
Wu Su-Yum [Pseudonym: Woo, John]
Video ~ Video
Action ~ Action
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong

#423
Seeßlen, Georg: John McTiernan oder wie sich Antonin Artaud, Bert Brecht und Wile E. Coyote in den Filmen eines scheiternden Handwerkers des späten amerikanischen Actionbildes miteinander unterhalten. In: EPD Film 19. 2002. No. 4. [April] pp. 26-33.
Description:
Especially on Rollerball. Includes a filmography.
Index:
McTiernan, John
Artaud, Antonin
Brecht, Bertold
Rollerball (2002)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Action ~ Action

#424
Seiter, Ellen: Sold separately: Parents and children in consumer culture. - New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1993.
Reviews:
Felperin, Leslie: [untitled] In: Screen 36. 1995. No. 3. [?D] pp. 297-300.
Description:
Discusses, among others, the meaning of action TV and action videos for kids.
Index:
Fernsehen ~ Television
Action ~ Action
Video ~ Video
Jugend ~ Youth

#425
Seitz, Alexandra: Ist das jetzt Emanzipation? In: EPD Film 32. 2015. No. 10. [October] pp. 28-32.
Description:
On the representation of strong women in recent US cinema.
Index:
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#426
Selbo, Jule: Film genre for the screenwriter. - New York: Routledge 2014.
Description:
Includes, among others, chapters on the horror, science fiction, fantasy and action film as well as on thrillers and disaster movies.
Index:
Thriller ~ Thriller
Science Fiction ~ Science Fiction
Katastrophen ~ Disasters
Horror ~ Horror
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Action ~ Action

#427
Senn, Bryan: Dangerous action: Avenging Force (1986). In: Senn, Bryan: The most dangerous cinema: People hunting people on film. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland 2014. p. ?P.
Index:
Firstenberg, Sam
Avenging Force (1986)
Action ~ Action
Horror ~ Horror
Jagd ~ Hunt

#428
Shimpach, Shawn: Television in transition: The life and afterlife of the narrative action hero. - Chichester; Malden, Massachussetts: Wiley-Blackwell 2010.
Description:
Includes, among others, chapters on the Highlander series, on Smallville, on the Superman films, on 24 and on Doctor Who.
Index:
Highlander (Filmreihe)
Smallville (TV)
Superman (Filmreihe)
24 (TV)
Doctor Who (Filmreihe)
Religion ~ Religion
Helden ~ Heros
Fernsehen ~ Television
Action ~ Action

#429
Sikora, Bill / Tumbusch, T. N.: Tomart’s encyclopedia & price guide to action figure collectibles. - Dayton, Ohio: Tomart Publications 1996.
Index:
Lucas, George
Star Trek (Filmreihe)
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Action ~ Action
Star Wars ~ Star Wars
Star Trek ~ Star Trek

#430
Sims, Yvonne, D.: Women of blaxploitation: How the black action heroine changed American popular culture. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Press 2006.
Reviews:
Bates, Courtney: A closer look. In: Film & History 37. 2007. No. 2. [Fall] p. 111-112.
Yates, Brandy: [untitled.] In: Journal of Popular Culture 42. 2009. No. 3. [?D] pp. 584-586.
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Frauen ~ Women
Exploitation ~ Exploitation
Action ~ Action

#431
Skoble, Aeon J.: Action and integrity in The Fugitive. In: The philosophy of TV noir. Edited by Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble. - Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky 2008. (= The philosophy of popular culture.) p. ?P.
Index:
Fugitive, The (TV)
Action ~ Action
Philosophie ~ Philosophy
Film Noir ~ Film Noir
Fernsehen ~ Television

#432
Slappnig, Dominik: "Im Kopf den Schalter kippen". In: Zoom 50. 1998. No. 10. [?D] pp. 8-9.
Description:
On Hong Kong action director Che-Kirk Wong.
Index:
Wong, Che-Kirk
Hongkong ~ Hong Kong
Action ~ Action

#433
Sloterdijk, Peter: Sendboten der Gewalt: Zur Metaphysik des Action-Kinos am Beispiel von James Camerons Terminator 2. In: Fischer, Robert / Sloterdijk, Peter / Theweleit, Klaus: Bilder der Gewalt. Mit einer Kontroverse zwischen Hans Günther Pflaum und Klaus Schreyer. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Andreas Rost. - Frankfurt/Main: Verlag der Autoren 1994. (= Filmbibliothek; Reden über Film.) pp. 13-32.
Index:
Cameron, James
Terminator II - Judgement Day (1991)
Religion ~ Religion
Action ~ Action
Gewalt ~ Violence

#434
Sloterdijk, Peter: Sendboten der Gewalt: Zur Metaphysik des Action-Kinos. In: Sloterdijk, Peter: Medien-Zeit: Drei gegenwartsdiagnostische Versuche. - Stuttgart: Cantz 1993. (= Schriftenreihe der Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe 1.) pp. 7-40.
Index:
Religion ~ Religion
Action ~ Action
Gewalt ~ Violence

#435
Smith, Damon: "They’re panicking, look at them!" The Brothers Quay. In: Action! Interviews with directors from classical Hollywood to contemporary Iran. Edited by Garry Morris. Foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum. - London; New York: Anthem Press 2009. p. ?P.
Index:
Quay, Stephen
Quay, Timothy
Action ~ Action

#436
Smith, Travis D.: Amoral dilemmas and the temptation to tyranny in A Simple Plan. In: Damned if you do: Dilemmas of action in literature and popular culture. Edited by Margaret S. Hrezo and John M. Parrish. - Lanham, Maryland: Lexington 2010. pp. 189-209.
Index:
Raimi, Samuel M.
Simple Plan, A (1998)
Literatur ~ Literature
Action ~ Action

#437
Sorge, Helmut / Weingarten, Susanne: "Ich will den Stall ausmisten": Der Hollywood-Schauspieler Arnold Schwarzenegger über politische Ziele, Gewalt im Action-Kino und seinen neuen Film End of Days. In: Der Spiegel 53. 1999. No. 48. [November 29] pp. 240-244.
Description:
Interview.
Index:
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Hyams, Peter
End of Days (1999)
Politik ~ Politics
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#438
Spencer, Liese: Revenger’s tragedy. In: Sight and Sound NS 14. 2004. No. 10. [October] pp. 18-20.
Description:
On philosophical aspects in Park Chan-wook’s action movie Oldeuboi.
Index:
Park Chan-wook
Oldeuboi (2003)
Philosophie ~ Philosophy
Korea ~ Korea
Action ~ Action

#439
Stahl, Eric / Teichmann, Bernd: Action-Special: Rums! In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1995. No. 5(204). [?D] pp. 56-68.
Description:
On old and new action films.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#440
Staiger, Janet: "The first bond who bleeds, literally and metaphorically": Gendered spectatorship for "pretty boy" action movies. In: Feminism at the movies: Understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema. Edited by Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer. - Oxon; New York: Routledge 2011. p. ?P.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Frauen ~ Women
Sexualität ~ Sexuality

#441
Star Wars: The action figure archive. Edited by Stephen J. Sansweet and Josh Ling. - San Francisco:Chronicle Books 1999.
Index:
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Action ~ Action

#442
Star Wars: The action figure archive. Edited by Stephen J. Sansweet and Josh Ling. - London: Virgin Books 1999.
Index:
Star Wars (Filmreihe)
Action ~ Action

#443
Stars und Stunts im Action-Kino. Hrsg. von Dirk Manthey. Autoren: Adolf Heinzlmeier und Berndt Schulz. - Hamburg: Kino-Verlag 1986. (= Ein Filmbuch von Cinema 14.)
Index:
Action ~ Action

#444
Stasukevich, Iain: An HDV action spectacular. In: American Cinematographer 90. 2009. No. 4. [April] pp. 22-26.
Description:
On the special effects for Crank 2: High Voltage.
Index:
Neveldine, Mark
Taylor, Brian
Crank 2: High Voltage (2009)
Technik: Spezialeffekte ~ Technology: Special Effects
Action ~ Action

#445
Stoner, Megan: The lion, the witch, and the war scenes: How Narnia went from allegory to action flick. In: Fantasy fiction into film: Essays. Edited by Leslie Stratyner and James R. Keller. - Jefferson, North Carolina; London: McFarland 2007. pp. 73-79.
Index:
Lewis, C[live] S[taples]
Adamson, Andrew
Chronicles of Narnia (Filmreihe)
Religion: Hexen ~ Religion: Witches
Krieg ~ War
Action ~ Action
Chronicles of Narnia, The (Literatur ~ Literature)
Literatur ~ Literature
Fantasy ~ Fantasy

#446
Stresau, Norbert: Exzellente Action. In: Science Fiction Times 30. 1988. No. 1. [January] pp. 9-10.
Description:
Reviews of Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop, Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys and Michael Gornick’s Creepshow 2.
Index:
Verhoeven, Paul
Schumacher, Joel
Gornick, Michael
Robocop (1987)
Lost Boys, The (1987)
Creepshow 2 (1987)
Action ~ Action

#447
Summerhayes, Catherine: Just a woman among the cyborgs: Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgement Day. In: Women willing to fight: The fighting woman in film. Edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick. - Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2007.
Index:
Cameron, James
Terminator II - Judgement Day (1991)
Roboter ~ Robots
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#448
Tasker, Yvonne: Dumb movies for dumb people: Masculinity, the body, and the voice in contemporary action cinema. In: Screening the male: Exploring masculinities in Hollywood cinema. Edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark. - New York; London: Routledge 1993. pp. 230-244.
Description:
Discusses, among others, the two Die Hard films by John McTiernan and Renny Harlin.
Index:
McTiernan, John
Harlin, Renny
Die Hard (1988)
Die Hard II (1990)
Die Hard (Filmreihe)
B-Filme ~ B Films
Action ~ Action
Körper ~ Bodies
Männer ~ Men
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#449
Tasker, Yvonne: Introduction: Action and adventure cinema. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#450
Tasker, Yvonne: Spectacular bodies: Gender, genre and the action cinema. - Coventry: University of Warwick, Ph.D. 1995. [Abstract in: Index to Theses with Abstracts 46. 1997. No. 2. p. 486(46-3161).]
Description:
Discusses, among others, James Cameron’s Aliens, Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct and Jan De Bont’s Speed.
Index:
Cameron, James
Verhoeven, Paul
De Bont, Jan
Aliens (1986)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Speed (1994)
Körper ~ Bodies
Action ~ Action
Sexualität ~ Sexuality

#451
Tasker, Yvonne: Spectacular bodies: Gender, genre and the action cinema. - New York; London: Routledge 1993. (= A Comedia Book.)
Reviews:
Burston, Paul: Pumping ironies. In: Sight and Sound NS 4. 1994. No. 3. [March] p. 32.
Grieveson, Lee: [untitled] In: Screen 35. 1994. No. 4. [?D] pp. 400-406.
McCarthy, John P.: [untitled] In: Film Quarterly 48. 1995. No. 4. [Summer] pp. 56-57.
Description:
Discusses, among others, James Cameron’s Aliens, Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct and Jan De Bont’s Speed.
Index:
Cameron, James
Verhoeven, Paul
De Bont, Jan
Aliens (1986)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Speed (1994)
Körper ~ Bodies
Action ~ Action
Sexualität ~ Sexuality

#452
Tasker, Yvonne: The family in action. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Familie ~ Family
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#453
Teichmann, Bernd: "Junge, Actionfilme sind hart!": Am Drehort von Judge Dredd. In: Cinema [Hamburg] 1995. No. 4(203). [?D] pp. 81-82.
Index:
Cannon, Danny
Judge Dredd (1995)
Action ~ Action

#454
Teichmann, Julia: Pixels: Nett-harmlose Actionkomödie als Hommage an Videospiel-Klassiker. In: Film-Dienst 68. 2015. No. 15. [July 23] p. 47.
Index:
Columbus, Chris
Pixels (2015)
Video ~ Video
Action ~ Action

#455
Tentori, Antonio: Il Cinema secondo Van Damme: L’evoluzione del cinema d’azione da Bruce Lee aBruce Willis. - Roma: Castelvecchi 2000. (= Contatti 190.)
Index:
Van Damme, Jean Claude
Lee, Bruce
Willis, Bruce
Action ~ Action

#456
Terror im Hochhausturm - eine Action-Wundertüte mit FX-Appeal. In: Geheim. Hrsg. von Dirk Manthey und Jörg Altendorf. Autoren: Christian Hellmann, Artur Jung, Andreas Kern und Richard Pleuger. - Hamburg: Kino Verlag 1990. (= Cinema Filmbuch.) pp. 167-172.
Description:
On action and stunt scenes in John McTiernan’s Die Hard.
Index:
McTiernan, John
Die Hard (1988)
Action ~ Action
Haus ~ House

#457
Tesche, Siegfried: James Bond: Autos, Action und Autoren. - Berlin: Henschel Verlag 1997.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
James Bond ~ James Bond
Action ~ Action

#458
Theunert, Helga: Action, Gewalt und Angst: Wie Kinder Gewaltdarstellungen wahrnehmen. In: Handbuch Medienerziehung und Kindergarten. Teil 1: Pädagogische Grundlagen. - Opladen: ?V 1994. pp. 248-256.
Index:
Pädagogik ~ Paedagogy
Action ~ Action
Jugend ~ Youth
Gewalt ~ Violence
Angst ~ Fear

#459
Thompson, Lisa: Art in action: Have you got what it takes to be an animator? - Minneapolis, Minnesota: Compass Point Books 2008. (= On the job.)
Index:
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#460
Tsui, Clarence: Don’t beat yourself up. In: South China Morning Post [HK], April 29, 2010. p. C8.
Description:
On a recent trend in action film to show a broken hero character.
Index:
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#461
Turner, George: Aerial and other action for Explorers. In: American Cinematographer 66. 1985. No. 8. [August] pp. 58-61.
Index:
Dante, Joe
Explorers (1985)
Action ~ Action

#462
Uhrig, Meike: Darstellung, Rezeption und Wirkung von Emotionen im Film: Eine interdisziplinäre Studie. - Tübingen: Universität Tübingen, Dissertation 2014.
Description:
Discusses, among others, the fantasy and action film genre.
Index:
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Action ~ Action

#463
Uhrig, Meike: Darstellung, Rezeption und Wirkung von Emotionen im Film: Eine interdisziplinäre Studie. - Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015.
Description:
Discusses, among others, the fantasy and action film genre.
Index:
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Action ~ Action

#464
Umard, Ralf: Es wächst und wächst. In: EPD Film 33. 2016. No. 3. [March] pp. 16-19.
Description:
On the film market in China.Discusses, among others, the Chinese animation and action cinema.
Index:
China ~ China
Animation ~ Animation
Action ~ Action

#465
Umland, Rebecca A.: The liminal outlaw hero in the modern action film. In: Umland, Rebecca A.: Outlaw heroes as liminal figures of film and television. - Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company 2016. p. ?P.
Index:
Action ~ Action
Fernsehen ~ Television
Helden ~ Heros

#466
van Ginneken, Jaap: Friends and foes: Spy, action and war movies. In: van Ginneken, Jaap: Screening difference: How Hollywood’s blockbuster films imagine race, ethnicity, and culture. - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield 2007. p. ?P.
Description:
Discusses, among others, the James Bond films.
Index:
James Bond (Filmreihe)
Ethnie ~ Ethnicity
Krieg ~ War
Action ~ Action
Hollywood ~ Hollywood

#467
Variety action movies: Illustrated reviews of the classic films. - London: Hamlyn 1992.
Index:
Action ~ Action

#468
Video Freaks Volume 5. Hrsg. von Till Bamberg, Christopher Feldmann, Steffen Gebhardt, Bernhard Heidkamp und Stefan Böse. - Norderstedt: Books on Demand 2018.
Index:
Video ~ Video
Action ~ Action

#469
Viviani, Christian: James Cameron et John McTiernan: Action men. In: Positif 1998. No. 443. [January] pp. 78-81.
Index:
Cameron, James
McTiernan, John
Action ~ Action

#470
Vogelgesang, Waldemar: Jugendliche Video-Cliquen: Action- und Horrorvideos als Kristallisationspunkte einer neuen Fankultur. - Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 1991.
Reviews:
Vollbrecht, Ralf: [untitled] In: Rundfunk und Fernsehen 39. 1991. No. 4. [?D] pp. 629-632.
Mohr, Hans-Ulrich: Medienwirkungen: Eine Sammelrezension. In: Medienwissenschaft 1991. No. 4. pp. 553-559.
Index:
Video ~ Video
Action ~ Action
Jugend ~ Youth
Horror ~ Horror

#471
Vogelgesang, Waldemar: Videocliquen: Action- und Horrorvideos als Kristallisationspunkte von jugendlichen Fangemeinschaften. In: Jugendkulturen - Faszination und Ambivalenz. Hrsg. von Wilfried Ferchhoff, Uwe Sander und Ralf Vollbrecht. - Weinheim; München: Juventa 1995. pp. 120-132.
Index:
Video ~ Video
Jugend ~ Youth
Horror ~ Horror
Action ~ Action

#472
Volk, Malte: "Explosionen im Gehirn": Action und Alzheimer in populären fiktionalen Werken. In: Action! Artefakt, Ereignis, Erlebnis. Hrsg. von Ingrid Tomkowiak, Brigitte Frizzoni und Manuel Trummer. - Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017. (= Kulturen populärer Unterhaltung und Vergnügung 4.) pp. 107 ff.
Index:
Krankheit ~ Illness
Gehirn ~ Brain
Action ~ Action

#473
Von Holzen, Aleta-Amirée: Schneller als das menschliche Auge: Zur Sichtbarmachung von Superspeed in Fotografie, Comic und Film. In: Action! Artefakt, Ereignis, Erlebnis. Hrsg. von Ingrid Tomkowiak, Brigitte Frizzoni und Manuel Trummer. - Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2017. (= Kulturen populärer Unterhaltung und Vergnügung 4.) pp. 43 ff.
Index:
Fotografie ~ Photography
Augen ~ Eyes
Animation: Comics ~ Animation: Comics
Action ~ Action

#474
Vorderer, Peter: Action, Spannung, Rezeptionsgenuß. In: Rezeptionsforschung. Hrsg. von Michael Carlton. - Opladen: ?V 1997. pp. 241-253.
Description:
On the necessity for suspense, violence and action in the media.
Index:
Thriller ~ Thriller
Gewalt ~ Violence
Action ~ Action

#475
Wagenheim, Christopher Paul: Male bodies on-screen: Spectacle, affect, and the most popular action adventure films in the 1980s. - Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University, Ph.D. 2016. [Abstract in: Dissertation Abstracts International A 78. 2016. No. 6. [?D].]
Description:
Discusses, among others, the films of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.
Index:
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Stallone, Sylvester
Männer ~ Men
Körper ~ Bodies
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#476
Wagner, Chuck: 101 Dalmatians: Stephen Herek on remaking a cartoon classsic in live-action. In: Cinefantastique 28. 1996. No. 6. [December] pp. 7, 61.
Index:
Herek, Stephen
101 Dalmatians (1996)
Action ~ Action
Animation: Cartoons ~ Animation: Cartoons

#477
Wagner-Winterhager, Luise: Jugendliche und Gewaltvideos. In: Pädagogik 42. 1990. No. 7/8. [?D] pp. 16-20.
Description:
Discusses especially the horror film, the martial arts film and the action thriller.
Index:
Martial Art ~ Martial Art
Video ~ Video
Action ~ Action
Thriller ~ Thriller
Jugend ~ Youth
Gewalt ~ Violence
Horror ~ Horror

#478
Welsh, James A.: Action films: The serious, the ironic, the postmodern. In: Film genre 2000: New critical essays. Edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon. - Albany, New York: New York State University Press 2000. pp. 161-176.
Index:
Postmoderne ~ Postmodern
Action ~ Action

#479
Wenderoth, Ulla: Neue Männerrollen im zeitgenössischen US-amerikanischen Actionfilm? Ausgewählte Fallstudien. - Marburg: Universität Marburg, Fachbereich 9, Institut für Neuere Deutsche Literatur und Medienwissenschaft, Magisterarbeit ?J (1996/1997)
Index:
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Männer ~ Men
Action ~ Action

#480
Westphal, Sascha: Das Licht der Revolution: Michelle Rodriguez. In: EPD Film 28. 2011. No. 4. [April] p. 31.
Description:
On the action hero.
Index:
Rodriguez, Michelle
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#481
Wilkins, Karin Gwinn: Home/land/security: What we learn about Arab communities from action-adventure films. - Lanham, Maryland: Lexington 2009.
Index:
Orient ~ Orient
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#482
Willemen, Paul: Comparative perspectives: Fantasy in action. In: World cinemas, transnational perspectives. Edited by Natasa D rovicová and Kathleen Newman. - New York: Routledge 2010.
Index:
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Action ~ Action

#483
Williams, Bronwyn T.: Action heroes and literate sidekicks: Literacy and identity in popular culture. In: Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 50. 2007. No. 8. [?D] pp. 680-685.
Index:
Helden ~ Heros
Action ~ Action

#484
Williams, Rachel: "They call me action woman": The marketing of Mimi Leder as a new concept in the high concept "action" film. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Leder, Mimi
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#485
Witterstaetter, Renee: Dying for action: The life and films of Jackie Chan. - New York: Warner 1997.
Index:
Chan, Jackie
Action ~ Action

#486
Witterstaetter, Renee: Dying for action: The life and films of Jackie Chan. - London: Ebury 1998.
First edition:
[New York: Warner 1997]
Index:
Chan, Jackie
Action ~ Action

#487
Wolf, Martin: Nur Fliegen ist schöner. In: Der Spiegel 55. 2001. No. 1. [January 1] pp. 134-135.
Description:
On director Ang Lee and his action films Tiger & Dragon and Ride With the Devil.
Index:
Lee Ang
Wo hu zang long / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Ride With the Devil (1999)
Action ~ Action

#488
Women willing to fight: The fighting woman in film. Edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick. - Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2007.
Index:
Frauen ~ Women
Action ~ Action

#489
Wood, Aylish: The collapse of reality and illusion in The Matrix. In: Action and Adventure cinema. Edited by Yvonne Tasker. - London; New York: Routledge 2004. p. ?P.
Index:
Wachowski, Andy
Wachowski, Larry
Matrix, The (Filmreihe)
Action ~ Action
Abenteuer ~ Adventure

#490
Wood, Gary: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Designing Turtle action. In: Cinefantastique 21. 1991. No. 6. [June] p. 19.
Index:
Pressman, Michael
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of Ooze (1990)
Schildkröten ~ Turtles
Action ~ Action

#491
Worschech, Rudolf: Vier Männer und ein Lastwagen: DVD-Premiere der französische Actionthriller Sweat. In: EPD Film 24. 2007. No. 5. [May] p. 59.
Description:
On a DVD edition of Louis-Pascal Couvelaire’s Sueurs.
Index:
Couvelaire, Louis-Pascal
Sueurs (2002)
Thriller ~ Thriller
Männer ~ Men
Frankreich ~ France
DVD ~ DVD
Action ~ Action

#492
Wörther, Matthias: Hanks, Codes und Action: Ein Kurz-Index zu The Da Vinci Code und Angels and Demons. In: Handbuch Theologie und populärer Film. Hrsg. von Thomas Bohrmann, Werner Veith und Stephan Zöller. Band 3. - Paderborn: Schöningh 2012. pp. 235 ff.
Index:
Howard, Ron
Hanks, Tom
Da Vinci Code, The (2006)
Angels & Demons (2009)
Action ~ Action
Religion ~ Religion

#493
Wünsch, Michaela: Lizenz zum Lieben: Zum Melodramatischen im Action-Kino am Beispiel von James Bond und Miami Vice. In: Sexualität im Film. Redaktion: Annette Brauerhoch. - Frankfurt/Main; Basel: Stroemfeld 2011. (= Frauen und Film 66.) pp. 91 ff.
Index:
Mann, Michael
James Bond (Filmreihe)
Miami Vice (2006)
Miami Vice (TV)
James Bond ~ James Bond
Action ~ Action
Frauen ~ Women
Sexualität ~ Sexuality

#494
Yip, Man-Fung: Dragons, ninjas, and kickboxers: The minor transnational action films of IFD. In: Exploiting East Asian cinemas: Translation, circulation, consumption. Edited by Ken Provencher and Mike Dillon. - New York: Bloomsbury Academic 2018. (= Global exploitation cinemas.) p. ?P.
Index:
Drachen ~ Dragons
Action ~ Action
Asien ~ Asia
Exploitation ~ Exploitation

#495
Yuen Woo-ping: Alive and kicking. In: South China Morning Post [HK], February 4, 2010. p. C7.
Description:
On action specialist Yuen Woo-ping and his latest movie True Legend.
Index:
Yuen Woo-ping
Su qi er / True Legend (2010)
Action ~ Action

#496
Zacharias, Usha: Those action-packed fantasies. In: Cinema in India 2. 1991. No. 5. [?D] pp. 33-37.
Description:
On hero characters in the fantasy film.
Index:
Helden ~ Heros
Fantasy ~ Fantasy
Phantasie ~ Fantasy
Action ~ Action

#497
Zöller, Stephan: Sendboten der Gewalt. In: Film-Dienst 46. 1993. No. 10. [May 11] p. 18.
Description:
On a speech held by German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk in Munich, titled "Prophets of violence - On the metaphysics of the action film exemplified by Terminator 2".
Index:
Cameron, James
Sloterdijk, Peter
Terminator II - Judgement Day (1991)
Religion ~ Religion
Philosophie ~ Philosophy
Action ~ Action
München ~ Munich
Gewalt ~ Violence


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