Ultimate Stallone Reader - Sylvester Stallone As Star, Icon, Auteur

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Edited by Chris Holmlund

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Chris Holmlund
• Assisted by: Chris Holmlund (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2014
• EAN: 9780231169813
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16981-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Film, TV & radio, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Individual actors and performers, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Guides & Reviews