Point Break and the Soft Masculinity of Action Movies

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What makes Point Break such an amazing action movie? Let’s ~unpack~.

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Citations:

Susan Jeffords. Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era (1994) Rutgers University Press

Christina Lane. Feminist Hollywood: From Born in Flames to Point Break, Wayne State University Press, Detroit (2000).

Martha M. Lauzen. Kathryn Bigelow: On Her Own in No-(Wo)Man’s-Land, Camera Obscura (2011) 26 (78): 146–153.

Alicia Malone. The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women, Mango Publishing Group (2018).

Willa Paskin. “What Kathryn Bigelow Learned From Rembrandt” Slant (2010).

“REALITY BYTES: Andrew Hultkrans in a 1995 conversation with Kathryn Bigelow” Artforum (2010).

Yvonne Tasker. Spectacular Bodies : Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (1993) Taylor & Francis Group.

April Wolfe. “Revisiting Hours: ‘Point Break’ Is the Greatest Female-Gaze Action Movie Ever” Rolling Stone (2018).

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