Spectacular bodies : gender, genre, and the action cinema / Yvonne Tasker.

While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism.Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as ̀ob...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Tasker, Yvonne, 1964-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Series:	Comedia.
Subjects:	Strong men in motion pictures. Sex role in motion pictures. Machismo in motion pictures. Action and adventure films > United States. Action and adventure films. United States.