Action figures [[electronic resource] ] : men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives / / by Mark Gallagher |
Autore | Gallagher Mark <1968-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/655 |
Soggetto topico |
Action and adventure films - United States - History and criticism
Men in motion pictures Masculinity in motion pictures Heroes in motion pictures |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-36360-X
9786611363604 1-4039-7723-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : popular representations of active masculinity since the late 1960s -- 1. Armchair thrills and the new adventurer -- 2. "I married Rambo" : action, spectacle, and melodrama -- 3. Omega men : late 1960s and early 1970s action heroes -- 4. Airport fiction : the men of mass-market literature -- 5. Restaging heroic masculinity : Jackie Chan and the Hong Kong action film -- Conclusion : the future of active masculinity. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450561703321 |
Gallagher Mark <1968-> | ||
New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Action figures [[electronic resource] ] : men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives / / by Mark Gallagher |
Autore | Gallagher Mark <1968-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/655 |
Soggetto topico |
Action and adventure films - United States - History and criticism
Men in motion pictures Masculinity in motion pictures Heroes in motion pictures |
ISBN |
1-281-36360-X
9786611363604 1-4039-7723-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : popular representations of active masculinity since the late 1960s -- 1. Armchair thrills and the new adventurer -- 2. "I married Rambo" : action, spectacle, and melodrama -- 3. Omega men : late 1960s and early 1970s action heroes -- 4. Airport fiction : the men of mass-market literature -- 5. Restaging heroic masculinity : Jackie Chan and the Hong Kong action film -- Conclusion : the future of active masculinity. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784158703321 |
Gallagher Mark <1968-> | ||
New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Action figures : men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives / / by Mark Gallagher |
Autore | Gallagher Mark <1968-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/655 |
Soggetto topico |
Action and adventure films - United States - History and criticism
Men in motion pictures Masculinity in motion pictures Heroes in motion pictures |
ISBN |
1-281-36360-X
9786611363604 1-4039-7723-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : popular representations of active masculinity since the late 1960s -- 1. Armchair thrills and the new adventurer -- 2. "I married Rambo" : action, spectacle, and melodrama -- 3. Omega men : late 1960s and early 1970s action heroes -- 4. Airport fiction : the men of mass-market literature -- 5. Restaging heroic masculinity : Jackie Chan and the Hong Kong action film -- Conclusion : the future of active masculinity. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826411903321 |
Gallagher Mark <1968-> | ||
New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cinematic quests for identity : the hero's encounter with the beast / / Maria Garcia |
Autore | Garcia Maria <1953-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
Disciplina |
791.43/653
791.43653 |
Soggetto topico |
Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures
Heroes in motion pictures Animals in motion pictures |
ISBN |
1-4422-4697-9
1-4422-4698-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Framing the Beast of Individuation; Chapter 2. A Woman's Beast: The Silence of the Lambs; Chapter 3. The Male Quest: When the Hero Doesn't Get "The Girl"; Chapter 4. Love Affairs with the Beast: Two Women of Screwball Comedy; Chapter 5. The Beast of the Diamond; Chapter 6. The Child's Quest: A First Glimpse of Mortality; Chapter 7. Catherine Breillat and the Fairy Tale Quest as "Passage"; Chapter 8. Robert Bresson and the Feminine Face of God; Filmography; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788019303321 |
Garcia Maria <1953-> | ||
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cinematic quests for identity : the hero's encounter with the beast / / Maria Garcia |
Autore | Garcia Maria <1953-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
Disciplina |
791.43/653
791.43653 |
Soggetto topico |
Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures
Heroes in motion pictures Animals in motion pictures |
ISBN |
1-4422-4697-9
1-4422-4698-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Framing the Beast of Individuation; Chapter 2. A Woman's Beast: The Silence of the Lambs; Chapter 3. The Male Quest: When the Hero Doesn't Get "The Girl"; Chapter 4. Love Affairs with the Beast: Two Women of Screwball Comedy; Chapter 5. The Beast of the Diamond; Chapter 6. The Child's Quest: A First Glimpse of Mortality; Chapter 7. Catherine Breillat and the Fairy Tale Quest as "Passage"; Chapter 8. Robert Bresson and the Feminine Face of God; Filmography; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815494103321 |
Garcia Maria <1953-> | ||
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The hero and the perennial journey home in American film [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Mackey-Kallis |
Autore | Mackey-Kallis Susan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/652 |
Soggetto topico |
Home in motion pictures
Heroes in motion pictures Myth in motion pictures |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-21061-4
9786613210616 0-8122-0013-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Mythological criticism -- pt. 2. Mythological criticism in sociohistorical context -- pt. 3. Synthesis. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457843903321 |
Mackey-Kallis Susan | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The hero and the perennial journey home in American film [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Mackey-Kallis |
Autore | Mackey-Kallis Susan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/652 |
Soggetto topico |
Home in motion pictures
Heroes in motion pictures Myth in motion pictures |
Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies Cultural Studies Film Studies Literature Media Studies |
ISBN |
1-283-21061-4
9786613210616 0-8122-0013-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Mythological criticism -- pt. 2. Mythological criticism in sociohistorical context -- pt. 3. Synthesis. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781730203321 |
Mackey-Kallis Susan | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The hero and the perennial journey home in American film / / Susan Mackey-Kallis |
Autore | Mackey-Kallis Susan |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/652 |
Soggetto topico |
Home in motion pictures
Heroes in motion pictures Myth in motion pictures |
Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies Cultural Studies Film Studies Literature Media Studies |
ISBN |
1-283-21061-4
9786613210616 0-8122-0013-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Mythological criticism -- pt. 2. Mythological criticism in sociohistorical context -- pt. 3. Synthesis. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828342503321 |
Mackey-Kallis Susan | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Heroism as a global phenomenon in contemporary culture / / edited by Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt, Nicole Falkenhayner |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 pages) |
Disciplina | 302.2308 |
Collana | Routledge studies in cultural history |
Soggetto topico |
Heroes in mass media
Heroes in popular culture Heroes in motion pictures Courage in mass media Courage in popular culture Courage in motion pictures |
ISBN |
0-429-55337-4
0-429-26278-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : studying heroism from a global perspective / Barbara Korte and Simon Wendt -- "Like a cinema when the last of the audience has gone and only the staff remain" : Biggles and (post-)imperial heroism / Michael Goodrum -- Y'a bon? : popularizing the tirailleurs as heroes of (anti-)colonialism / Konstanze N'Guessan and Mareike Späth -- Princess of a different kingdom : cultural imperialism, female heroism, and the global performance of Walt Disney's Mulan and Moana / Sotirios Mouzakis -- One hero fits all? : cultural translations in Doctor Strange (2016) as "global hero" movie / Nicole Falkenhayner and Maria-Xenia Hardt -- Zashchitniki (Guardians) : a failed Russian-Soviet answer to Superman and Batman / Dietmar Neutatz -- "This beast in the shape of a man" : right-wing populism, white masculinity, and the transnational heroization of Donald Trump / Michael Butter -- Axe and helmet : the widening range of New York firefighters as (super-)heroes / Wolfgang Hochbruck -- Unlikely tragic (anti-)heroes : gangsters translated into Hindi films / Sugata Nandi -- Heroism and the pleasure and pain of mistranslation : the case of the act of killing / Ariel Heryanto -- Shaolin martial arts heroes in industrial Hong Kong : between colonialism, postcolonialism and globalism / Ricardo K. S. Mak -- Interhuman. interspecies. global : heroism in Wes Anderson's Isle of dogs (2018) / Ulrike Zimmermann -- Global heroism as a discursive tradition : a critical response / Ken Chitwood. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910758490603321 |
London : , : Routledge, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Hollywood 9/11 : superheroes, supervillains, and super disasters / / Tom Pollard |
Autore | Pollard Tom (Leslie Thomas) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/655 |
Soggetto topico |
Violence in motion pictures
Heroes in motion pictures Villains in motion pictures Psychic trauma in motion pictures Terrorism in motion pictures Motion pictures - United States - History - 21st century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-317-25812-6
1-315-63413-9 1-317-25811-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Shock; December 7, 1941; Violence; Post-9/11 Emotions; Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome; Hollywood's Initial Reactions; 2 Grief; Television Films and Documentaries; Conspiracy Theories; War on Terror; Satire; 3 Horror; Early Horror Films; Post-9/11 Horror; Vampires; Horror at the Box Office; 4 Rage; World War II: The Good War; Vietnam: The Bad War; Post-9/11 Vietnam; Afghanistan; Distant Wars; Ancient Rage; Return of the Good War; 5 Vengeance; Early Superheroes; Post-9/11 Superheroes; Supervillains
Science and TechnologyCyborgs; Shape-Shifters; Psychics; Echolocation; Supervigilantes; Satire; Revenge; 6 Terror; Thrillers; Pre-9/11 Terrorists; Post-9/11 Terrorists; Domestic Terrorists; Revenge; Serial Killers; Femmes Fatales; 7 Paranoia; Apocalypse; Pre-9/11 Science Fiction; Post-9/11 Science Fiction; Computer-Generated Imagery; Conspiracy; Super Disasters; 8 Post-9/11 Hollywood; Vampires; Rage; Supervillains; Super Disasters; Repressed Superheroes; Terror; Demonized Politicians; Rogue Corporations; Religion; Special Effects; Post-9/11 Heroes; Post-9/11 Neonoir; Blurred Genres; Vietnam Post-9/11 StyleThe Age of Paranoia; Future Trends; Notes; Selected Filmography; Index; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460742403321 |
Pollard Tom (Leslie Thomas) | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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