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Q&A with David Da Silva, Author of Martial Arts in Cinema Volume 2: The Golden Era (1988-1997) 1. What made you decide to focus specifically on the 1988-1997 period for this second volume? That decade represents the absolute explosion of martial arts into mainstream Hollywood. After the groundwork laid by Bruce Lee in the 1970s and the Hong Kong wave, you suddenly had Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme becoming genuine box office titans. But more importantly, this era saw martial arts infiltrate every action film: whether it was Sylvester Stallone in Rambo III, Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon, or...