Topic summary
Action films
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Action film.
Hybrid genres
Action films often overlap with other genres. Tasker wrote that films are often labelled action thrillers, action-fantasy, and action-adventure films with different nuances. Tasker went on to further state that both the action and adventure are often used as interchangeable terms. Along with Holmund and Purse, Tasker wrote that the action genre's expansiveness complicates easy categorization and, though it is often spoken of as singular genre, it is rarely discussed as singular style.