Introduction : a little violence never hurt anyone
"The law's crazy" : the vigilante and other myths
Automatons : hard-bodies and world pacification
Enter the fists : the body as the weapon
Into the jungle, out of the wasteland : action in the wild
Blowing up all those familiar places : terror and the confined arena
Unmitigated disasters : old formulas and the new spectacle
Tomorrow's heroes today : action meets the fantastic
Excelsior! : march of the superheroes
Conclusion : sifting through the rubble.
