The Ultimate Stallone Reader

Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-16981-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 507 g

Sylvester Stallone has been a defining part of American film for nearly four decades. He has made an impact on world entertainment in a surprisingly diverse range of capacities; as actor, writer, producer, and director; all while maintaining a monolithic presence. With The Ultimate Stallone Reader, this icon finally receives concerted academic attention. Eleven original essays by internationally-known scholars examine Stallone's contributions to mainstream cinema, independent film, and television. This volume also offers innovative approaches to star, gender, and celebrity studies, performance analysis, genre criticism, industry and reception inquiry, and the question of what it means to be an auteur. Ultimately, The Ultimate Stallone Reader investigates the place that Sylvester Stallone occupies within an industry and a culture that have both undergone much evolution, and how his work has reflected and even driven these changes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holmlund, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Presenting Stallone/Stallone Presents, by Chris HolmlundStaying Alive: Stallone, Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood Aesthetics, by Paul RamaekerLogic is the Cure, Meet the Disease: The Melos of Cobra, by Scott HigginsI, of the Tiger: Self and Self-Obsession in the Rocky Series, by Eric LichtenfeldStallone and Hollywood in Transition, by Mark GallagherAdventures in Acting: Stallone the Performer, by Chris HolmlundStallone's Stomach: Cop Land and the Weight of Actorly Legitimisation, by Paul McDonaldThe 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 HufferSylvester Stallone and John Rambo's Trek across Asia: Politics, Performance and American Empire, by Gina MarchettiStallone, Ageing and Action Authenticity, by Yvonne TaskerFilmographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Holmlund is Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor of Cinema Studies and French at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Impossible Bodies (2002), editor of American Cinema of the 1990s (2008), co-editor of Contemporary American Independent Film (2005) and Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary (1997).