Action films have remained as one of the most important and influential genres. Beyond action films, action is an element widely adopted by other genres such as sci-fi, comedy and crime, etc. In different countries and regions, action films have their respective origins and evolved in the interactions with each other. The transnational and cross-cultural integrations and integrations of cross-genres and cross-subgenres have made action films a hybrid genre, in other words, a Super-genre. This classification helps us recognize the core of this super-genre (or the shared cores of these genres). Self-evidently, the super-genre relies on actions much more than words. From an iconographic view, it centers on the images of human body. Action films always present conflicts which are between bodies or between bodies and space. And these conflicts are presented as visible violent activities of bodies, in the forms of fists fight, swords dance, gun fire, chasing, explosions or any other combats with tools.
