Action Films Analysis

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events noted by Jeffords, in her essay, "Terminal Masculinity: Men in the Early 1990s," that played a significant backdrop to the 80s and 90s American action film said by her were that "the national debt doubled, the threat of communism grew less, many, as many on the right became increasingly outspoken and independent, as reports of drug use increased, as AIDS moved clearly out of the "closet" and into white heterosexual homes, as the Iran-contra scandal refused to disappear, as George Bush came under attack for his relationship to Manuel Noriega, as the Reagans were accused of abuse and neglect by their daughter, Patty Davis, U.S. mainstream citizens began to worry that the social order that had seemed to be so smoothly instituted under Ronald Reagan had begun to deteriorate." Jeffords singles out the family and justice because "by 1991, Hollywood's interest in justice had waned and been replaced by a less socially troublesome topic-commitment to the family." Jeffords ...

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