Spectacular bodies : gender, genre, and the action cinema /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Colección:Comedia.
Temas:
Strong men in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Machismo in motion pictures.
Action and adventure films > United States.
Action and adventure films > United States > History and criticism.
Hommes forts au cinéma.
Machisme au cinéma.
Films d'aventures > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Rôle selon le sexe au cinéma.
Films d'aventures > États-Unis.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Action and adventure films
Machismo in motion pictures
Sex role in motion pictures
Strong men in motion pictures
Sekserol.
Films.
Mannelijkheid.
United States
Cinema > Films (Motion pictures)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Gender and the action cinema
  • Women warriers : gender, sexuality and Hollywood's fighting heroines
  • Black buddies and white heroes : racial discourse in the action cinema
  • New Hollywood, genre and the action cinema
  • Tough guys and wise guys : masculinities and star images in the action cinema
  • Masculinity, politics and national identity
  • The body is crisis or the body triumphant?
  • Action heroines in the 1980s : the limits of 'musculinity"
  • The cinema as experience : Kathryn Bigelow and the cinema of spectacle.

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