Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film [electronic resource] : The Mighty Sons of Hercules /
O'Brien, D.author.
The muscle-bound male body is a perennial feature of classically-inflected action cinema. This book reassesses these films as a cinematic form, focusing on the depiction of heroic masculinity. In particular, Hercules in his many incarnations has greatly influenced popular cultural interpretations of manliness and the exaggerated male form.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Peplum in Context; Theorising Masculinity; Peplum Masculinity; The Heroic Body; The Fascist Body; The Colonial Body; Femininity; Part I Men as Men Should Be; 1 Hercules Unchained; Framing the Super-Torso; 'He must truly be the son of Jupiter!'; 2 Hercules Reformed; Hercules at Rest; Hercules at Home; Hercules Unleashed; 'A peril from afar'; 3 Hercules Diminished; Relaunching the Argo; Hercules Reimagined; The Kennedy Ideal; Hercules Diminished; 4 Hercules Rebooted; 5 I'm Spartacus!
Conan and the Tree of WoePart II Taming the Women with Love or Death; 6 The Loves of Hercules; 7 The Temptress from Beyond; 8 Fight Like a Man; Part III This Thing of Darkness; 9 White Man's Burden?; The Man from Judea; 10 Doom's Children; White Supremacy?; 11 This Is Sparta!; Coda; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The muscle-bound male body is a perennial feature of classically-inflected action cinema. This book reassesses these films as a cinematic form, focusing on the depiction of heroic masculinity. In particular, Hercules in his many incarnations has greatly influenced popular cultural interpretations of manliness and the exaggerated male form.
Hercules (Roman mythological character)
Motion pictures—History.
Sociology.
Motion pictures and television.
Communication.
Film History.
Gender Studies.
Screen Studies.
Media Studies.