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Spectacular bodies : gender, genre, and the action cinema

Author: Yvonne Tasker
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Series: Comedia.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-
Spectacular bodies.
London ; New York : Routledge, 1993
(OCoLC)622113871
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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