A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (1989)

, 140–141

A Touch of Zen (1971)

, 140

Action

, 1–2, 24

heroines

, 93–95

masculinity

, 53–55

movie genre

, 26

scenes

, 124

sequences

, 38

Action and Adventure Cinema (Tasker)

, 2–3

Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture (Inness)

, 2–3

Action Cinema

, 156, 214–215

Action films

, 10–11, 52, 140

homoerotic and subversive elements in

, 189–190

in Reagan Era

, 171–173

Action women

emancipation

, 105–108

female warrior in Colombian cinema

, 108–118

Adventure

, 125–126

After the Fall of New York (Martino)

, 24

Agile action star, reading and reception of

, 206–208

Alias María (Rugeles)

, 104–105

Alien Resurrection

, 84–85

Alien Woman: The Making of Lieutenant Ripley

, 78–79

Aliens (Cameron)

, 77–79, 156, 158, 161, 214

films

, 79–80

sequel

, 81

siege

, 82–83

stages in

, 80–81

Andrews

, 177–178

Angel

action scene

, 179–180

key characters

, 173–176

trilogy

, 170

Anti-Heroines

, 109–114

Archetypes

, 52–53

Ashes of Time (1994)

, 141

Atomic Blonde (Broughton)

, 15–16

Ator the Invincible (D’Amato)

, 38

Attainment of romantic partner

, 58–60

Avenging Angel

, 176–177

Babes on Bikes

, 93–94

female friendship

, 97–98

feminist snap

, 99–101

mandatory heterosexuality

, 96–97

Bad Girls: The Media, Sex & Feminism in the 90s (Lumby)

, 15–16

Barbarian Queen (Olivera)

, 38, 44, 47

Barbarianism

, 40

Barbed Wire (1996)

, 93–94

Basic Instinct (Tramell)

, 10–12, 16–17

Beastmaster, The (1982)

, 44, 189–190

Beauty in motion

, 205–206

Beauty of Living Twice, The

, 10–11

Belligerence

, 157

Ben Hur (1925/1959)

, 39–40

Beverly Hills Cop

, 52–54, 56

Beyond Bombshells: the New Action Heroine in Popular Culture (Brown)

, 2–3

Beyond Thunderdome

, 31–32

Black Angel

, 44

Black Cauldron, The (Berman and Rich)

, 38

Body

, 200

Boy, Billy

, 178–179

Buddy-cop films

, 52–53

action masculinity

, 53–55

attainment of romantic partner

, 58–60

emotional stability

, 56–58

identity and career accomplishment

, 55–56

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

, 14–15, 98

Bullet in the Head (1990)

, 141

Cabiria (1913)

, 39–40

Camp elements

, 189–190

Career accomplishment

, 55–56

Cars That Ate Paris, The (1974)

, 92, 94–95

Casino Royale (2006)

, 206

Casual sexism

, 127–128

Charlie’s Angels

, 140–141

Chungking Express (1994)

, 141

Civilisation

, 40

Clash of the Titans (Harry-hausen)

, 44

Cloverfield, The (Hamilton)

, 77–78, 85–86

Cocaine Wars (Olivera)

, 44–45

Collins

, 177–178

Colombian cinema, female warrior in

, 108–118

Colombian guerrillas

, 105

Colonial Marines

, 160

Come Drink with Me (1966)

, 140

Comedy

, 53–54

Commando (1985)

, 52–53, 186–187

queering

, 189–190

subversive thesis on gender

, 196

Conan the Barbarian (Milius)

, 38, 40, 42, 44

Conquest (Fulci)

, 38

Contemporary Action Cinema (Purse)

, 3

Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television (Baker)

, 2–3

Coogan’s Bluff (1968)

, 172–173

Costuming

, 128

Cowboy

, 170

Crank It Up: Jason Statham: Star! (Gerrard and Shail)

, 3

Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture (Brown)

, 2–3

Dead End Drive In (1986)

, 92, 94–95

Death Wish 2 (Winner)

, 170

Deathstalker (Watson)

, 38, 43–44

Die Hard (1988)

, 189–190

Die Hard (McTiernan)

, 38

Dinosaurs

, 123–124

Dragonslayer (Robbins)

, 38

Easy Rider (1969)

, 92–93

Edipo alcalde (Triana)

, 104–105

El hermano Caín (López)

, 104

El río de las tumbas (Luzardo)

, 104

Emotional stability

, 56–58

Emperor of the North Pole

, 2

Empowerment

, 30–31

Enforcement Droid Series 209 (ED-209)

, 164

Esta fue mi vereda (Canal)

, 104

Excalibur (Boorman)

, 38

Executioners (1993)

, 140–141

Expendables (2010–2014)

, 201, 214

Expendables 3, The

, 189

Exploitation

, 157

Face/Off (Woo)

, 65

Fallen Angels (1995)

, 141

Family

, 171

Fandom

, 11–13

Fast & Furious action franchise

, 201–203, 214

FBI’s test

, 67

Female emancipation

, 107

Female friendship

, 97–98

Female warrior in Colombian cinema

, 108–118

Femininity

, 3–4

Feminism

, 25

Feminist snap

, 99–101

Fight Club (Fincher)

, 65

Fire and Ice (Bakshi)

, 38

First Blood (Kotcheff)

, 2, 4, 38

Five Wives

, 33

Flame and Crimson: A History of the Sword-and-Sorcery (Murphy)

, 41

From Russia with Love (1963)

, 191–192

Fury Road

, 24–26, 28, 32

Gaming

, 214–215

Gender

, 1, 10–11, 65, 156, 170, 186, 214–215

agency

, 33

disparity

, 52

in Jurassic Park

, 124

lens

, 3–4

masquerade

, 65

performance

, 66

portrayals in Action Cinema

, 2

Genre

, 140

Girl on a Motorcycle, The (Cardiff)

, 93, 97

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The

, 94

Goliath and the Barbarians (Campogalliani)

, 39–40

Gor (Kiersch)

, 38

Grandmaster, The (2013)

, 141, 148–149

Green Place

, 86–87

Gunan, King of the Barbarians (Prosperi)

, 44

Hamlet

, 189

Hard and/or hysterical bodies

, 202–203

Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era (Jeffords)

, 2, 186–187

Hard body

, 171

Hawk the Slayer

, 44

Hearts and Armour (Battiato)

, 42

Heavy Metal (Potterton)

, 38

Hegemonic hierarchy

, 200–201

Hegemonic masculinity

, 25, 64, 72–73

Hercules (1983)

, 39–40, 44, 189–190

Heroic Trio (1993)

, 140–141

Heroism

, 77–78, 87–88

Highlander (1986)

, 52–53

Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

, 205–206

Homoeroticism

, 190

Hong Kong (cinema)

, 140

female drug dealer and killer dispatcher

, 141–143

female fighters and post-colonial culture

, 147–149

fighting and travelling women in Jianghu

, 144–146

Hundra (Cimber)

, 38

Hunger Games, The (Everdeen)

, 77–78, 85

Hybrid Tomboys

, 114–118

I Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Dick)

, 13

I Spit on Your Grave (Zarchi)

, 46–47

ICS Network Television

, 162

Ideational populism

, 156–157, 167

Identity

, 55–56

Illegal armed organisations

, 106–107

Interstellar Commerce Commission tribunal (ICC tribunal)

, 158–159

Iron Master (Lenzi)

, 38

James Bond cycle

, 2, 65

Jianghu, fighting and travelling women in

, 144–146

Junior (1994)

, 186

Jurassic Park

, 3–4, 123–124, 134–135

films

, 124–125

gender in

, 124

men

, 129–132

over-sexed dinosaurs of

, 132–134

women of

, 125–129

Jurassic Park III

, 132

Jurassic World

, 125–126

Kar-wai, Wong

, 141, 145–146, 148

Kathryn Bigelow

, 65–66

Killer, The (1989)

, 141

King of Elfland’s Daughter, The (Dunsaney)

, 39–40

Krull (Yates)

, 38

Kull of Atlantis (1929)

, 40

La Sargento Matacho (González)

, 104–105

La toma de la embajada (Durán)

, 104–105

Last Action Hero (Tramell)

, 10, 17

Lazy 70s-era sexism

, 127–128

Leather Boys, The (1964)

, 92–93

Legends of the Condor Heroes, The (1957)

, 145

Lethal Weapon

, 52–56

Lethal Weapon 2 (Donner)

, 41

LGBTQ social movement

, 177

Lord of the Rings, The (Jackson)

, 39–40

LV-426

, 160

Macho-mother heroism

, 83, 87

Mad Max

, 24, 34

discourse

, 27

films

, 92

Mad Max 2

, 31

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

, 31

visual narrative

, 26

Mad Max: Fury Road (Furiosa)

, 77–78, 85–87

Madonna and the Christ Child, The

, 79–80

Main Force Patrol

, 27

Male bodies

, 201–202

Male virility

, 113–114

Male-on-Male Gaze

, 193–195

Mandatory heterosexuality

, 96–97

Masculine action

, 201–202

Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema (Pang and Wong)

, 3

Masculinity

, 3–4, 27, 42–43, 64, 200–201, 203–204

crises

, 65

Matrix, The (Wachowskis)

, 65, 200, 204–205

Matrix and John Wick (Reeves)

, 3–4

Matrix trilogy

, 77–78

Max and Nux (Hoult)

, 33

Men

, 200–201

of Jurassic Park

, 129–132

Metal Storm: The Destruction of Jared Syn (Band)

, 24

Midnite Spares (1983)

, 92

Misogyny

, 52

Mission: Impossible (De Palma)

, 65

Mobility

, 203–204

Modern gangster

, 140

Monstrous-Feminine, The (1993)

, 111

Motherhood

, 77–78, 81

Motion

, 205–206

Motorcycle films

, 92

Mujer de fuego (Mitrotti)

, 104–105

Musculinity

, 171–172

Mysticism

, 37–38

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA)

, 30

Never-Ending Story, The (Petersen)

, 38

Normativity under siege

, 64–65

Nostromo

, 79, 81–82

Nü-xia (female knight-errant)

, 140

Omni Consumer Products (OCP)

, 164–165

Over-sexed dinosaurs of Jurassic Park

, 132–134

Perfect (Bridges)

, 45–46

Play Murder for Me (Olivera)

, 44–45

Point Break (Bigelow)

, 3–4, 65–66, 200, 204

central tension

, 67

opening sequence

, 66–67

preoccupation

, 72–73

transformative power in

, 71–72

violence in

, 71

voices of masculinity

, 68–69

Populism

, 156–157

Populist demagoguery

, 157–167

Post #MeToo cultural shifts

, 12

Post-colonial culture

, 147–149

Post-feminism

, 11–12

Pre-#MeToo Hollywood

, 10–11

Pre-traumatic anticipatory anxiety

, 24

Predator (1987)

, 52–53

Pretty Woman (1990)

, 14–15

Prostitution

, 173–174

Psychomania (1972)

, 92–93

Psychotic monster

, 113–114

Public sphere

, 104–105

Quantum of Solace (2008)

, 206

Queering Commando

, 189–190

Rainbow protagonists

, 176–177

Rambo (1982)

, 52–53

Rambo (2008)

, 195

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

, 189–190

Rape

, 113

revenge

, 94, 97–98

Reaganism

, 171–172

Red Sonja (Neilson)

, 43–44

Reeves, Keanu

, 200

agile action star, reading and reception of

, 206–208

beauty in motion

, 205–206

hard and/or hysterical bodies

, 202–203

kinetic

, 204–205

male bodies and masculine action

, 201–202

masculinity, mobility and movement

, 203–204

men, masculinity and hegemonic hierarchy

, 200–201

Return of the Condor Heroes, The (1959)

, 145

Return of the King, The

, 44

Ripley, Ellen

, 77–78, 81–82, 87–88, 214

Road House (1989)

, 52–53

Road warriors

, 28

Robocop (Verhoeven)

, 52–53, 156, 164, 167

Romance

, 58

Romancing the Stone (Zemeckis)

, 41

Rosario Tijeras (Maillé)

, 104–105

Running Man, The (Glaser)

, 156, 162, 164

Rush Hour franchise

, 52–53

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

, 186

Science fiction

, 77–78

Scorpio Rising (1963)

, 92–93

Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in Hollywood Cinema (Cohan and Hark)

, 2

Second Wave of Feminism

, 79

Sex and Zen & a Bullet in the Head

, 140

Sexual aggressions

, 111

Sexual violence

, 97–98, 111, 113

Sexuality

, 25

Shame (1988)

, 92–95

Shame (1992)

, 92–95

Shame II: The Secret

, 95

Sharon Stone

, 10

Basic Instinct (Tramell)

, 16–17

in early 1990s

, 10–11

Specialist, The (Munro)

, 18–19

theory, method and approach

, 11–13

Total Recall (Quaid)

, 13–16

Sicariato

, 115–116

Sinbad films (Harryhausen)

, 39

Soft body

, 171, 175–176, 178

Sorceress (Stuart/Hill)

, 38

Spartacus (1960)

, 39–40

Spear and Fang (Burke)

, 40

Specialist, The (Munro)

, 10, 18–19

Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (Tasker)

, 2, 41–42

Speed (1994)

, 200

Spice Girls

, 14–15

Stallone, Sylvester

, 186

Star Wars (Skywalker)

, 77–78

Starring Tom Cruise (Redmond)

, 3

Stone (1974)

, 92

Striptease strategy

, 194

Sword and sorcery

, 38

Barbarian Queens

, 44–47

beginnings

, 38–41

women warriors

, 41–44

Sword and the Sorcerer, The (Pyun)

, 38

Sword of the Barbarians, The (Tarantini)

, 39

Tang Dynasty

, 145

Tango and Cash

, 189

Terminator, The (Connor)

, 77–78, 85, 186–187

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

, 186–187

Thor the Conqueror (Ricci)

, 44

Tomb Raider, Charlie’s Angels (2000)

, 205, 2003

Total Recall (Quaid)

, 10, 13, 16

Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture (Inness)

, 2

Toxic masculinity

, 52

Trading Places (Landis)

, 41

Tres Escapularios (Aljure)

, 104–105

True Grit (Hathaway)

, 179–180

Twins (1988)

, 186

Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur, The (Holmlund)

, 3

Ursus, Son of Hercules (Campogalliani)

, 39–40

Vehicular masculinity

, 25

Victimisers

, 109–114

Vigilantism

, 170

Violence

, 2–3, 37–38

Violent female action characters (VFAC)

, 96

Vulnerability

, 52–53

War Fighters

, 114–118

Warrior and the Sorceress, The (Broderick)

, 38

Warrior Women: Gender, Race and the Transnational Chinese Action Star (Funnell)

, 2–3

Waterworld (Reynolds)

, 24

Weird Tales

, 40

Well at the End of the World, The (Morris)

, 39–40

Wild Bunch, The (1969)

, 195

Wild One, The (1954)

, 92–93

Women of Jurassic Park

, 125–129

Working Girl (Nichols)

, 41

Wuxia

, 140, 145, 147

X-Files (Scully)

, 77–78

X-men

, 140–141, 205

Xena: Warrior Princess

, 98

Xenomorph

, 81–83, 87–88