"In 1978 the films Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master, both starring a young Jackie Chan, caused a stir in the Hong Kong cinema industry and changed the landscape of martial arts cinema. Mixing virtuoso displays of acrobatic kung fu with knockabout humor to huge box …
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"This collection of essays presents a sampling of film and television texts interrogating images of U.S. masculinity. Rather than using "postfeminist" as a definition of contemporary feminism, this collection uses the term to designate the period from the late 1980s on--as a poi…
This collection of essays presents a sampling of film and television texts, interrogating images of U.S. masculinity. Rather than using "postfeminist" as a definition of contemporary feminism, this collection uses the term to designate the period from the late 1980s on--as a poi…
"This collection of essays presents a sampling of film and television texts interrogating images of U.S. masculinity. Rather than using "postfeminist" as a definition of contemporary feminism, this collection uses the term to designate the period from the late 1980s on--as a poi…
"This book explores representations of masculinity in Spanish film from the early Franco dictatorship through the present. It describes the rise of consumerism in contemporary Spain and, through an analysis of over 60 films, and shows how the hegemonic masculine models presented…
"This book explores representations of masculinity in Spanish film from the early Franco dictatorship through the present. It describes the rise of consumerism in contemporary Spain and, through an analysis of over 60 films, and shows how the hegemonic masculine models presented…
Introduction -- Love hard: die hard and the home front hero -- Love will show the way -- Home is where the action is -- Serving on multiple fronts: action women -- Integrating the American action hero -- Rebooting action legends -- Hamlet IX: happily ever after -- Living to get …
"This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes. The American heroic quest of the past 25 years increasingly has involved a reclamation of home, creating a place for the Hero at the hearth, part of a more in…
"This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes. The American heroic quest of the past 25 years increasingly has involved a reclamation of home, creating a place for the Hero at the hearth, part of a more in…
This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti cre…
This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in these films. Alberti cre…
While masculinity has been an increasingly visible field of study within several disciplines (sociology, literary studies, cultural studies, film and tv) over the last two decades, it is surprising that analysis of contemporary representations of the first part of the century ha…