Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema, Volume 10Psychology Press, 1993 - 195 halaman An examination of the importance of questions of gender, sexuality and genre in popular action films such as Rambo and Thelma and LouiseWhile 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, sexual and racial identities which took place during the 1980s, but reflects the influences of other media such as the new video culture. Her detailed discussion of the homoeroticism surrounding the muscleman hero, the symbolic centrality of blackness within the crime narrative, and the changing status of women within the genre, addresses the constitution of these identities through the shifting categories of gender, class, race, sex, sexuality and nation. Spectacular Bodies also examines the ambivalence of supposedly secure categories of popular cinema, questioning the existing terms of film criticism in this area and addressing the complex pleasures of this neglected form. |
Isi
WOMEN WARRIORS Gender sexuality and Hollywoods fighting heroines | 14 |
BLACK BUDDIES AND WHITE HEROES Racial discourse in the action cinema | 35 |
NEW HOLLYWOOD GENRE AND THE ACTION CINEMA | 54 |
TOUGH GUYS AND WISEGUYS Masculinities and star images in the action cinema | 73 |
MASCULINITY POLITICS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY | 91 |
THE BODY IN CRISIS OR THE BODY TRIUMPHANT? | 109 |
ACTION HEROINES IN THE 1980s The limits of musculinity | 132 |
Edisi yang lain - Lihat semua
Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema Yvonne Tasker Pratinjau tidak tersedia - 1993 |
Istilah dan frasa umum
action cinema action films action heroine action movie action narrative action picture Aliens American analysis Arnold Schwarzenegger articulation associated audience Blue Steel Bogle buddy central centre character characterisation China O'Brien comedy complex construction contemporary context critical discourses discussion emphasise fantasy Fatal Beauty female bodybuilder femininity feminist fiction figure film's functions gendered identity genre Harrigan hero's Hollywood cinema involved Kathryn Bigelow Last Boy Scout lesbian macho male body male hero masculine identity McClane Miami Vice mins muscular male offers operates performance persona physical played pleasures Point Break police political popular cinema popular culture postmodernism Predator production Rambo Rambo III reference relation relationship representation represents Ripley RoboCop Rocky role Sarah Connor scene Schwarzenegger's seen sequence sexualised sexuality significance spectacle Stallone's star image stereotypes Sylvester Stallone Tango and Cash television Thelma and Louise tion tradition Vietnam visual western whilst white hero woman women