‘Have You Ever Been Mistaken for a Man?’: Hyper-Masculinity in Action-Horror

Heaving muscles, strong-wills and deep bonds were the guts of 1980s action films. Films like First Blood (1982) and Commando (1985) were becoming wildly popular among male audiences and as the 80s progressed, these notions of masculinity were assimilated into a wide variety of sub-genres that began to infiltrate the film landscape. Men in films had always…

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