Few movie genres have highlighted the male body more effectively than the "sword-and-sandal" film, where the rippling torso and the bulging muscle are displayed for all to appreciate. Carrying his phallic sword and dressed in traditional garb calculated to bring attention to his magnificent physique, the sword-and-sandal hero is capable of toppling great nations, rescuing heroines, defeating monsters, and generally saving the day. Each of these essays examines the issues of masculinity and utility addressed in the sword-and-sandal genre. The contributors offer insights on a film form which…mehr
Few movie genres have highlighted the male body more effectively than the "sword-and-sandal" film, where the rippling torso and the bulging muscle are displayed for all to appreciate. Carrying his phallic sword and dressed in traditional garb calculated to bring attention to his magnificent physique, the sword-and-sandal hero is capable of toppling great nations, rescuing heroines, defeating monsters, and generally saving the day. Each of these essays examines the issues of masculinity and utility addressed in the sword-and-sandal genre. The contributors offer insights on a film form which showcases its male protagonists as heroic, violent, fleshy, and, in the end, extremely useful.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master's of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works.
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Table of Contents Introduction-Of Muscles and Men: The Forms and Functions of the Sword and Sandal Film MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS Hercules, Politics, and Movies MARIA ELENA D'AMELIO Hero Trouble: Blood, Politics, and Kinship in Pasolini's Medea KRISTI M. WILSON "To do or die manfully": Performing Heteronormativity in Recent Epic Films JERRY B. PIERCE From Maciste to Maximus and Company: The Fragmented Hero in the New Epic ANDREW B. R. ELLIOTT Reverent and Irreverent Violence: In Defense of Spartacus, Conan, and Leonidas JOHN ELIA "Civilization ... ancient and wicked": Historicizing the Ideological Field of 1980s Sword and Sandal Films KEVIN M. FLANAGAN Homer's Lies, Brad Pitt's Thighs: Revisiting the Pre-Oedipal Mother and the German Wartime Father in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy ROBERT C. PIRRO An Enduring Logic: Homer, Helen of Troy, and Narrative Mobility LARRY T. SHILLOCK "By Jupiter's Cock!" Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Video Games, and Camp Excess DAVID SIMMONS Beefy Guys and Brawny Dolls: He-Man, the Masters of the Universe, and Gay Clone Culture MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS Developments in Peplum Filmmaking: Disney's Hercules CHRIS PALLANT Hercules Diminished? Parody, Differentiation, and Emulation in The Three Stooges Meet Hercules DANIEL O'BRIEN About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Introduction-Of Muscles and Men: The Forms and Functions of the Sword and Sandal Film MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS Hercules, Politics, and Movies MARIA ELENA D'AMELIO Hero Trouble: Blood, Politics, and Kinship in Pasolini's Medea KRISTI M. WILSON "To do or die manfully": Performing Heteronormativity in Recent Epic Films JERRY B. PIERCE From Maciste to Maximus and Company: The Fragmented Hero in the New Epic ANDREW B. R. ELLIOTT Reverent and Irreverent Violence: In Defense of Spartacus, Conan, and Leonidas JOHN ELIA "Civilization ... ancient and wicked": Historicizing the Ideological Field of 1980s Sword and Sandal Films KEVIN M. FLANAGAN Homer's Lies, Brad Pitt's Thighs: Revisiting the Pre-Oedipal Mother and the German Wartime Father in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy ROBERT C. PIRRO An Enduring Logic: Homer, Helen of Troy, and Narrative Mobility LARRY T. SHILLOCK "By Jupiter's Cock!" Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Video Games, and Camp Excess DAVID SIMMONS Beefy Guys and Brawny Dolls: He-Man, the Masters of the Universe, and Gay Clone Culture MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS Developments in Peplum Filmmaking: Disney's Hercules CHRIS PALLANT Hercules Diminished? Parody, Differentiation, and Emulation in The Three Stooges Meet Hercules DANIEL O'BRIEN About the Contributors Index
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