The ultimate Stallone reader : Sylvester Stallone as star, icon, auteur /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Holmlund, Chris (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Wallflower Press, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : presenting Stallone/Stallone presents / Chris Holmlund
  • Staying alive : Stallone, authorship and contemporary Hollywood aesthetics / Paul Ramaeker
  • Logic is the cure, meet the disease : the melos of Cobra / Scott Higgins
  • I, of the tiger : self and self-obsession in the Rocky series / Eric Lichtenfeld
  • Stallone and Hollywood in transition / Mark Gallagher
  • Adventures in acting : Stallone the performer / Chris Holmlund
  • Stallone's stomach : Cop land and the weight of actorly legitimisation / Paul McDonald
  • The Rocky effect : Sylvester Stallone as sport hero / Alexandra Keller & Frazer Ward
  • 'Who wouldn't want a body life that?' : masculinity, muscularity and male audiences for the films of Sylvester Stallone / Ian Huffer
  • Sylvester Stallone and John Rambo's trek across Asia : politics, performance and American empire / Gina Marchetti
  • Stallone, ageing and action authenticity / Yvonne Trasker.