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Spectacular bodies : gender, genre, and the action cinema /
While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1993.
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| Colección: | Comedia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered, sex. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (195 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Filmography: pages 178-185. Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-190) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781134873012 1134873018 0203221842 9780203221846 9781134872961 1134872968 9781134873005 113487300X 1280323221 9781280323225 |