03400nam 2200757Ia 450 991096079850332120200520144314.01-134-87300-X0-415-09224-81-280-32322-10-203-22184-21-134-87301-810.4324/9780203221846 (CKB)1000000000361111(EBL)179873(OCoLC)304076558(SSID)ssj0000350624(PQKBManifestationID)11270311(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000350624(PQKBWorkID)10353964(PQKB)11390132(Au-PeEL)EBL179873(CaPaEBR)ebr10058294(CaONFJC)MIL761272(OCoLC)180696074(Au-PeEL)EBL5300063(CaONFJC)MIL32322(OCoLC)1027169676(MiAaPQ)EBC179873(EXLCZ)99100000000036111119921120d1993 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSpectacular bodies gender, genre, and the action cinema /Yvonne Tasker1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19931 online resource (215 p.)ComediaReprinted 1995, 1996, 2000.0-203-30515-9 0-415-09223-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexWhile 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, sexComedia.Strong men in motion picturesSex role in motion picturesMachismo in motion picturesAction and adventure filmsUnited StatesStrong men in motion pictures.Sex role in motion pictures.Machismo in motion pictures.Action and adventure films791.43/653Tasker Yvonne1964-846181MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910960798503321Spectacular bodies4450952UNINA