Die Hard, Paperback by Lewis, Jon, ISBN 1839026529, ISBN-13 9781839026522, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US “This new BFI Film Classic on Die Hard (1988) provides a close textual analysis of the action classic, focusing on the impact and importance of the film’s producer, Joel Silver and his “whammy theory” of narrative. John Lewis considers the film’s ending in all its complicated and conflicting detail, situating it within the contexts of Reaganism and its distrust of government bureaucracy, post-Vietnam male panic and the ‘Iron John’ men’s movement, and the search for new villains in the aftermath of the Cold War”–