"Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back" is a study of
action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre
with reference to its relatively short history. It moves from
seminal classics like "Bullitt" (1968) and "Dirty Harry" (1971)
through epoch-defining films like "Rambo: First Blood Part II"
(1985) and "Die Hard" (1988) to revisions, reboots, and renewals in
films like "Kill Bill Vol. 1" (2003), "Taken" (2008), and "The
Expendables" (2010). The action genre is a fusion of form and
content: a cinema of action about action. It is a cinema of the
will, configured as a decisive reaction to untenable circumstances.
Action heroes take up arms against the sea of troubles that beset
them, safe in the knowledge that if they don't do it, nobody will.
Though this makes the action movie profoundly disturbing as an
embodiment of moral ideology, its enduring appeal proves the
appetite for assurance remains undiminished, even in the wake of
9/11.
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