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Spectacular bodies : gender, genre, and the action cinema / Yvonne Tasker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-
- Series:
- Comedia.
- Comedia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strong men in motion pictures.
- Sex role in motion pictures.
- Machismo in motion pictures.
- Action and adventure films--United States.
- Action and adventure films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Spectacular Bodies; Copyright Page; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Gender and the action cinema; 1. Women Warriors: Gender, Sexuality and Hollywood's Fighting heroines; 2. Black Buddies and White Heroes: Racial discourse in the action cinema; 3.New Hollywood, Genre and the Action Cinema; 4. Tough Guys and Wise-Guys: Masculinities and star Images in the action cinema; 5.Masculinity, Politics and National Identity; 6. The Body in Crisis or The body Triumphant?; 7. Action Heroines in the 1980's: The limits of 'musculinity'
- 8. The Cinema as Experience: Kathryn Bigelow and the cinema of spectacle Notes; Filmography; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Reprinted 1995, 1996, 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-87300-X
- 0-415-09224-8
- 1-280-32322-1
- 0-203-22184-2
- 1-134-87301-8
- 9780203221846
- OCLC:
- 304076558
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