Chris Holmlund

The Ultimate Stallone Reader

Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Eleven original essays by internationally-known scholars examine Stallone¿s contributions to mainstream cinema, independent film, and television

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9780231169806
• ISBN-10: 0231169809
• Artikelnr.: 40544047

Autorenporträt

Edited by Chris Holmlund

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Presenting Stallone/Stallone Presents, by Chris Holmlund
Staying Alive: Stallone, Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood Aesthetics,
by Paul Ramaeker
Logic is the Cure, Meet the Disease: The Melos of Cobra, by Scott Higgins
I, of the Tiger: Self and Self-Obsession in the Rocky Series, by Eric
Lichtenfeld
Stallone and Hollywood in Transition, by Mark Gallagher
Adventures in Acting: Stallone the Performer, by Chris Holmlund
Stallone's Stomach: Cop Land and the Weight of Actorly Legitimisation, by
Paul McDonald
The Rocky Effect: Sylvester Stallone as Sport Hero, by Alexandra Keller &
Frazer Ward
'Who wouldn't want a body like that?': Masculinity, Muscularity and Male
Audiences for the Films of Sylvester Stallone, by Ian Huffer
Sylvester Stallone and John Rambo's Trek across Asia: Politics, Performance
and American Empire, by Gina Marchetti
Stallone, Ageing and Action Authenticity, by Yvonne Tasker
Filmography
Index