[Commlist] Call for Chapters - Gender in Action Films

BOOK – Call for Chapters - Gender in Action Films
Book title: Gender in Action Films (1980-now)

Publisher: Emerald Publishing

Date of Publication: 2022

Editors: Dr Renee Middlemost (University of Wollongong, Australia) and 
Dr Steven Gerrard (Leeds Beckett University, UK)

Rationale: 2022 sees the fortieth anniversary of cinematic action icon, 
John Rambo. From his first outing as an embittered, lonely, scarred 
relic of the Vietnam War to his latest gung-ho, all-guns blazing, 
machete-chopping, dynamiting Trump-value supporting outing, Rambo 
remains an important part of the action film.
But in those forty years, not only has Rambo’s political outlook 
changed, so has the action film. More expansive, expensive, and 
certainly as divisive than ever, films such as the Die Hard franchise 
and The Expendables trilogy offer nostalgia-laden views of their action 
commanders, whilst the films of Jason Statham offer a new type of male 
action hero, where vulnerability remains key. Yet, the rise in 
popularity of the female action hero since the turn of the millennium, 
shows that with films such as Salt, In the Blood and Atomic Blonde, 
characters like Hanna, Katniss Everdeen and Diana Prince, and actors 
Angelina Jolie, Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez and Michelle Yeoh 
that the genre and all its offshoots are worthy of further gender 
investigation.

Following on from Yvonne Tasker’s Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and 
the Action Cinema, female-centric Action Chicks: New Images of Tough 
Women in Popular Culture (Sherrie J. Inness) and Jeffrey A. Brown’s 
Beyond Bombshells: The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture or the 
reclamation of masculinity in Crank It Up – Jason Statham: Star! this 
Call for Chapters is a chance to explore how gender is linked to, and 
helps shape, the action film genre.

Areas of research could include (but are not limited to):
Male action heroes
Female action heroes
Individual case studies
Sexuality
Transgender characters and performers
Nostalgia
Ageing
Transnational gender heroes
The ‘Star’ and ‘Star’ images
Politics and gender Acting and legitimising action heroes
Audiences and gender approaches to watching action hero films

Authorship

Transmedia action heroes

Submission details: We would like you to submit a 250-word abstract, 
accompanied by a short biographical statement plus affiliation details. 
The deadline for chapter abstract submission is: 12 April 2020. Please 
address any enquiries to both Dr Renee Middlemost ((reneem /at/ uow.edu.au)) 
and Dr Steven Gerrard ((S.D.Gerrard /at/ leedsbeckett.ac.uk)).  We’ll get back 
to you as soon as possible, and once the date for submissions has passed.

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