| Description |
1 online resource (195 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Comedia |
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Comedia.
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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 |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Cinema Films (Motion pictures) |
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Filmography: pages 178-185 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-190) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Strong men in motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Machismo in motion pictures.
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Action and adventure films -- United States
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Action and adventure films -- United States -- History and criticism
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Action and adventure films
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Machismo in motion pictures
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Sex role in motion pictures
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Strong men in motion pictures
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Sekserol.
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Films.
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Mannelijkheid.
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134873012 |
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1134873018 |
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0203221842 |
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9780203221846 |
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9781134872961 |
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1134872968 |
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9781134873005 |
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113487300X |
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1280323221 |
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9781280323225 |
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