Marchetti’s action-adventure formula
ideology. Describe this link and discuss how it works in a specific example
from the action-adventure genre. Further, what are at least two ways that the
action-adventure formula maintains ideologies of gender, race, and class?
How has the formula shifted in order to make concessions to
the dominant ideology?
In what ways do these shifts challenge dominant ideologies, and
in what way do they maintain them?





