• Biographies (2) • Encyclopedias (1) • Dictionaries (1) • Essays (1) • Film Reviews (3) • Studies (23) • Interviews (1) • Stories (2) • Didactic (1)
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Crank It Up (2019)
Jason Statham: Star!
Dir. Steven Gerrard and Robert Shail
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Actor > Jason Statham
John McTiernan (2018)
The Rise and Fall of an Action Movie Icon
by Larry Taylor
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > John McTiernan
Action Cinema Since 2000 (2024)
Dir. Chris Holmlund, Lisa Purse and Yvonne Tasker
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Explodobook (2021)
The World of 80s Action Movies According to Smersh Pod
by John Rain
Publisher: Polaris Publishing
Mine's Bigger Than Yours (2020)
The 100 Wackiest Action Movies
by Christopher Lombardo and Jeff Kirschner
Publisher: Schiffer
King of the Action Thriller (2026)
Films from the Mind of Alistair MacLean
by Brian Hannan
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Mad Max Effect (2022)
Road Warriors in International Exploitation Cinema
by James Newton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Chinese Martial Arts Film and the Philosophy of Action (2022)
by Stephen Teo
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Martial Arts
The Worlds of John Wick (2022)
The Year's Work at the Continental Hotel
Dir. Caitlin G. Watt and Stephen Watt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
The Cinema of James Wan (2022)
Critical Essays
Dir. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Matthew Edwards
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Experts in Action (2021)
Transnational Hong Kong-Style Stunt Work and Performance
Publisher: Duke University Press
Music in Action Film (2020)
Sounds Like Action!
Dir. James Buhler and Mark Durrand
Publisher: Routledge
Parameters of Disavowal (2018)
Colonial Representation in South Korean Cinema
by Jinsoo An
Publisher: University of California Press
Warrior Women (2015)
Gender, Race, and the Transnational Chinese Action Star
by Lisa Funnell
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Studying The Bourne Ultimatum (2012)
by Neil Archer
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Subject: One Film > The Bourne Ultimatum
The Depiction of Terrorists in Blockbuster Hollywood Films, 1980–2001 (2011)
An Analytical Study
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Asian Influence on Hollywood Action Films (2008)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Director in Action (2007)
Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film
by Stephen Teo
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Subject: Director > Johnnie To
Action Speaks Louder (2007)
Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Hong Kong Connections (2006)
Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema
Dir. Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li and Stephen Chan Ching-Kiu
Publisher: Duke University Press
Masters of the Shoot-'Em-Up (2015)
Conversations with Directors, Actors and Writers of Vintage Action Movies and Television Shows
by Tadhg Taylor
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Last Action Heroes (2024)
The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
Publisher: Crown
Classic Movie Fight Scenes (2017)
75 Years of Bare Knuckle Brawls, 1914–1989
by Gene Freese
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Adventures
Crash! Boom! Bang! (2017)
How to Write Action Movies
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
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