Of muscles and men
Subtitle: essays on the sword and sandal film
By: edited by Michael G. Cornelius
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780786461622
Subjects: Epic films; History and criticism; Men in motion pictures; Masculinity in motion pictures
Description: "Few movie genres have highlighted the male body more effectively than the "sword-and-sandal" film, where the rippling torso and the bulging muscle are displayed for all to appreciate. Carrying his ubiquitously phallic sword and dressed in traditional garb calculated to highlight his magnificent physique"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the functions and forms of the sword and sandal film / Michael G. Cornelius; title: Hercules, politics, and movies / Maria Elena D Amelio; title: Hero trouble: blood, politics, and kinship in Pasolini's Medea / Kristi M. Wilson; title: To do or die manfully : performing heteronormativity in recent epic films / Jerry B. Pierce; title: From maciste to maximus and company: the fragmented hero in the new epic / Andrew B. R. Elliott; title: Reverent and irreverent violence: in defense of Spartacus, Conan, and Leonidas / John Elia; title: Civilization- ancient and wicked : historicizing the ideological field of 1980s sword and sandal films / Kevin M. Flanagan; title: Homer's lies, Brad Pitt's thighs: revisiting the pre-Oedipal mother and the German wartime father in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy / Robert C. Pirro; title: An enduring logic: Homer, Helen of Troy, and narrative mobility / Larry T. Shillock; title: By Jupiter's cock! Spartacus: blood and sand, video games, and camp excess / David Simmons; title: Beefy guys and brawny dolls: He-Man, the Masters of the Universe, and Gay clone culture / Michael G. Cornelius; title: Developments in peplum filmmaking: Disney's Hercules / Chris Pallant; title: Hercules diminished? parody, differentiation, and emulation in the Three Stooges meet Hercules / Daniel O'Brien.