Paperback • 2012 • Norwegian Bokmål

Spectacular bodies : gender, genre and the action cinema

Name: Spectacular bodies : gender, genre and the action cinema
SKU: 9780415092234
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ISBN: 9780415092234

By Yvonne Tasker

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About the book

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...Show more

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9780415092234

Publisher

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis

Published year

2012

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

Spectacular bodies : gender, genre and the action cinema

Format

Paperback

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