Publisher's Synopsis
Violence--we hate it in real life, we love it in the movies. Is there a difference? Of course. From the author of Strange New World: Sex Films of the 1970s and Cool TV of the 1960s comes the most detailed study yet of one hundred of the most enjoyable violent movies.
From Cagney and Corman to Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat, from Coffy and Black Caesar to Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction, from Republic serials to the Die Hards, from Shaft and Get Carter to Schwarzenegger and Stallone, these are films faked the hard way, with real stunts, real explosions, real muscles, real imagination, strong scripts, serious carnage, and real cars on real roads.
Written with a sense of humor, but packed with information, here are one hundred of the best, most violent action movies ever. Where they came from, why they're great, and what's in 'em that makes them great. Jon Abbott is currently appearing regularly in Infinity magazine. He has been writing professionally about 20th century pop culture for over thirty years, with over four hundred articles on TV and film published in over two dozen different magazines, trade, specialist, and populist, and numerous best-selling books on Amazon. He lives in Brighton, England.
