Adventure Movies

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This volume examines the cinema of adventure, distinct from action and action-adventure. It argues that the adventurer is separate from the action hero and that the cinema of adventure--from tales of gods and monsters defied by mythic heroes to stories of crusaders conquering far-flung territories, from true-life accounts of survival or death at the extreme reaches of human endurance to science-fiction stories of journeys beyond human conception--represents a life-affirming confrontation with our collective mortality and spiritual immortality.They achieve immortality by telling and retelling their tales across media forms in spite of social and technological change.