Action Fiction

Short description: Fiction-writing mode or genre

Action fiction is a literary genre that focuses on stories that involve high-stakes, high-energy, and fast-paced events. This genre includes a wide range of subgenres, such as spy novels, adventure stories, tales of terror and intrigue ("cloak and dagger") and mysteries. This kind of story utilizes suspense, the tension that is built up when the reader wishes to know how the conflict between the protagonist and antagonist is going to be resolved or what the solution to the puzzle of a thriller is.^[1]

Action (genre)

Action genre is a form of genre fiction whose subject matter is characterized by emphasis on exciting action sequences. This does not always mean they exclude character development or story-telling. The action genre is related to other forms of fiction, including action film, action television series, action games and analogous media in other formats such as manga and anime. It includes martial arts action, extreme sports action, car chases and vehicles, suspense action, and action comedy, with each focusing in more detail on its own type and flavor of action. It is usually possible to tell from the creative style of an action sequence, the emphasis of an entire work, so that, for example, the style of a combat sequence will indicate whether the entire work can be classified as action-adventure, or a martial work. Action is mainly defined by a central focus on any kind of exciting movement.^[2]^[3]

Action novels

58 Minutes (1987)
The Bourne Identity (1980)
The Chinaman (1992)
First Blood (1972)
Man on Fire (1980)
Nothing Lasts Forever (1979)

Action films

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Equalizer (2014)
Hanna (2011)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015 )
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Top Gun (1986)
The Villainess (2017)

Action television series

Airwolf (1984)
The A-Team (1983)
Gangs of London (2020)
MacGyver (1985)
My Name (2021)
Nikita (2010)
The Punisher (2017)
Squid Game (2021)

References

↑ (Turco 1999)
↑ "Action". October 21, 2016. https://literaryterms.net/action/.
↑ Dow, Isabella (April 26, 2017). "The Appeal of the Action Genre". The Heights. https://www.bcheights.com/2017/04/26/the-appeal-of-the-action-genre/.

Parenthetical references

Turco, Lewis (1999). The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship (1st ed.). Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England. ISBN 978-0874519549. https://archive.org/details/bookofliteraryte0000turc/page/n5/mode/2up.

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[1] (Turco 1999)

[Literary-2] "Action". October 21, 2016. https://literaryterms.net/action/.

[Dow-3] Dow, Isabella (April 26, 2017). "The Appeal of the Action Genre". The Heights. https://www.bcheights.com/2017/04/26/the-appeal-of-the-action-genre/.

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