Descended From Hercules - Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen

Informationen zum Autor Robert A. Rushing is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he also holds affiliate appointments in Media and Cinema Studies and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He is author of Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture and co-editor of Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s. Klappentext Rushing explores how the very tactile modes of representation cement the genre's ideological grip on the viewer. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements A Note on Film Titles and Foreign Language Citations Introduction: Descended from Hercules: A Peplum Genealogy 1. Nos Morituri: Time in the Peplum 2. Pre/Post: Sexuality in the Peplum 3. Skin Flicks: The Haptic Peplum 4. Immune Systems: The Peplum as Biopolitical Genre Conclusion: Biopolitical Fantasy Filmography Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert A Rushing, Robert A. Rushing
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780253022509
• ISBN: 978-0-253-02250-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: New Directions in National Cinemas; New Directions in National Cin; New Directions in National Cinemas; New Directions in National Cin
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet