Robert A. Rushing

Descended from Hercules

Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen

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Produktbeschreibung

Rushing explores how the very tactile modes of representation cement the genre's ideological grip on the viewer.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in National Cinemas
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780253022509
• ISBN-10: 0253022509
• Artikelnr.: 45053120

Autorenporträt

Robert A. Rushing is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he also holds affiliate appointments in Media and Cinema Studies and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He is author of Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture and co-editor of Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
A Note on Film Titles and Foreign Language Citations
Introduction: Descended from Hercules: A Peplum Genealogy
1. Nos Morituri: Time in the Peplum
2. Pre/Post: Sexuality in the Peplum
3. Skin Flicks: The Haptic Peplum
4. Immune Systems: The Peplum as Biopolitical Genre
Conclusion: Biopolitical Fantasy
Filmography
Works Cited
Index