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Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema

Yvonne Tasker

While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered, sex

GenresStrong men in motion picturesSex role in motion picturesMachismo in motion picturesAction and adventure filmsUnited States

215 pages, 10 editions

English edition · First published 1993 by Taylor and Francis · ISBN 9780203221846

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Editions

10 editions

English

  • Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema · Taylor and Francis · 2012 · ISBN 9780203221846 This page
  • Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema · Routledge · 2014 · ISBN 9780203305157
  • Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema · Taylor & Francis Group · 2012 · ISBN 9781134872954
  • Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema · Taylor and Francis · 2012 · ISBN 9781280323225
  • Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema · Taylor & Francis Group · 2012 · ISBN 9781134872985
  • Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema · Taylor and Francis · 2012 · ISBN 9781134873005
  • Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema · Taylor & Francis Group · 2012 · ISBN 9781134872961
  • Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema · Taylor and Francis · 2012 · ISBN 9781134873012
  • Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema · Routledge · 1993 · ISBN 9780415092234
  • Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema · Routledge · 1993 · ISBN 9780415092241

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