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

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 `o...

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1. Verfasser: Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Schriftenreihe:Comedia.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (195 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) :)
Format: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.
Bibliographie:Filmography: pages 178-185.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-190) and index.
ISBN:9781134873012
1134873018
0203221842
9780203221846
9781134872961
1134872968
9781134873005
113487300X
1280323221
9781280323225

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