University of Notre Dame Australia ResearchOnline@ND Arts Papers and Journal Articles School of Arts 2013 Turning the gun on America: Cobra and the action film as cultural critique Ari M. Maes e University of Notre Dame, Australia [Sydney], [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: hp://researchonline.nd.edu.au/arts_article Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons is article was originally published as: Maes, A. M. (2013). Turning the gun on America: Cobra and the action film as cultural critique. e Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 2 (3), 457-470. hp://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc.2.3.457_1 is article is posted on ResearchOnline@ND at hp://researchonline.nd.edu.au/arts_article/81. For more information, please contact [email protected].