1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIASUN0053069

Titolo

Etruscorum ante quam Ligurum: la Versilia tra 7. e 3. secolo a.C. / a cura di Emanuela Paribeni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

307 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Edizione

[Pontedera : Bandecchi & Vivaldi]

Descrizione fisica

Mostra tenuta a Pietrasanta nel 1989. - In testa al front.: Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali, Soprintendenza archeologica per la Toscana; Comune di Pietrasanta.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960798503321

Autore

Tasker Yvonne <1964->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993

ISBN

1-134-87300-X

0-415-09224-8

1-280-32322-1

0-203-22184-2

1-134-87301-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

Comedia

Disciplina

791.43/653

Soggetti

Strong men in motion pictures

Sex role in motion pictures

Machismo in motion pictures

Action and adventure films - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprinted 1995, 1996, 2000.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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