Spectacular bodies : gender, genre, and the action cinema / Yvonne Tasker.

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Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: ComediaPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.Description: 1 online resource (195 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781134873012
1134873018
0203221842
9780203221846
9781134872961
1134872968
9781134873005
113487300X
1280323221
9781280323225

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spectacular bodies.DDC classification:

791.43/653 22

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.S697 T37 1993eb

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24.34

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Contents:

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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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.

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Filmography: pages 178-185.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-190) and index.

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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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