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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tasker, Yvonne, 1964- Spectacular bodies. London ; New York : Routledge, 1993 (OCoLC)622113871 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Yvonne Tasker |
| ISBN: | 041509223X 9780415092234 0415092248 9780415092241 |
| OCLC Number: | 27725223 |
| Description: | 195 p., [11] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : Gender and the action cinema -- Women warriers : gender, sexuality and Hollywood's fighting heroines -- Black buddies and white heroes : racial discourse in the action cinema -- New Hollywood, genre and the action cinema -- Tough guys and wise guys : masculinities and star images in the action cinema -- Masculinity, politics and national identity -- The body is crisis or the body triumphant? -- Action heroines in the 1980s : the limits of 'musculinity" -- The cinema as experience : Kathryn Bigelow and the cinema of spectacle. |
| Series Title: | Comedia. |
| Responsibility: | Yvonne Tasker. |
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