Spectacular Bodies; Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (Popular Fictions (Comedia)
Editorial Reviews
Women's Studies
"...Spectacular Bodies is an exciting and accessible study which delivers on its objectives."
Review
"Tasker's book employs tools forged by feminists to explore the contemporary action cinema most often associated with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a body of work too often dismissed, she says, as "dumb movies for dumb people." Tasker argues that the heart of the recent action film is inscribed with ambiguous and complex shifting meanings in a discourse devoted primarily to issues of power and powerlessness....But hers is an accessible, well-written, provocative, and intelligent book about a cinema too popular to be ignored."
-CHOICE, Jan. 1995
"Tasker demonstrats qualities rarely found in the application of theory to popular pleasure: an enthusiasm and clarity of style which actually makes you want to experience the pleasures yourself.."
-Sight and Sound
"...Spectacular Bodies is an exciting and accessible study which delivers on its objectives."
-Women's Studies
Spectacular Bodies; Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (Popular Fictions (Comedia)
Spectacular Bodies; Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (Popular Fictions (Comedia),YVONNE TASKER,Routledge,0415092248,Adventure films,Cinema/Film: Book,Film & Video - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Gender Studies,Machismo in motion pictures,Men's Studies - General,Performing Arts,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Sex role in motion pictures,Strong men in motion pictures,United States,Cultural studies,Film theory & criticism
Fun Book:
Recommended Books