Spectacular bodies : gender, genre, and the action cinema /
Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-
Spectacular bodies : gender, genre, and the action cinema / Yvonne Tasker. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1993. - 1 online resource (195 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations - Comedia . - Comedia. .
Filmography: pages 178-185. Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-190) and index.
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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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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9781134873012 (electronic bk.) 1134873018 (electronic bk.) 0203221842 (electronic bk.) 9780203221846 (electronic bk.) 9781134872961 (e-book ; Mobi) 1134872968 9781134873005 (e-book ; ePub) 113487300X 1280323221 9781280323225 (Cloth) (Paper) (hbk.)
10.4324/9780203221846 doi
Strong men in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Machismo in motion pictures.
Action and adventure films--United States.
Hommes forts au cinéma.
Machisme au cinéma.
Films d'aventures--Histoire et critique.--États-Unis
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)
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.S697 / T37 1993eb
791.43/653
Spectacular bodies : gender, genre, and the action cinema / Yvonne Tasker. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1993. - 1 online resource (195 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations - Comedia . - Comedia. .
Filmography: pages 178-185. Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-190) and index.
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.
Use copy
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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
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
English.
9781134873012 (electronic bk.) 1134873018 (electronic bk.) 0203221842 (electronic bk.) 9780203221846 (electronic bk.) 9781134872961 (e-book ; Mobi) 1134872968 9781134873005 (e-book ; ePub) 113487300X 1280323221 9781280323225 (Cloth) (Paper) (hbk.)
10.4324/9780203221846 doi
Strong men in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Machismo in motion pictures.
Action and adventure films--United States.
Hommes forts au cinéma.
Machisme au cinéma.
Films d'aventures--Histoire et critique.--États-Unis
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)
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.S697 / T37 1993eb
791.43/653