Michael G. Cornelius: Of Muscles and Men

Cover: 9780786461622 | Of Muscles and Men | Essays on the Sword and Sandal Film | Cornelius

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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 phallic sword and dressed in traditional garb calculated to bring attention to his magnificent physique, the sword-and-sandal hero is capable of toppling great nations, rescuing heroines, defeating monsters, and generally saving the day. Each of these essays examines the issues of masculinity and utility addressed in the sword-and-sandal genre. The contributors offer insights on a film form which showcases its male protagonists as heroic, violent, fleshy, and, in the end, extremely useful.

Über den Autor

Michael G. Cornelius is a professor of English and director of the Master's of Humanities program at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning novelist and the author or editor of numerous scholarly works.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Introduction-Of Muscles and Men: The Forms and Functions of the Sword and Sandal Film

MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS

Hercules, Politics, and Movies

MARIA ELENA D'AMELIO

Hero Trouble: Blood, Politics, and Kinship in Pasolini's Medea

KRISTI M. WILSON

"To do or die manfully": Performing Heteronormativity in Recent Epic Films

JERRY B. PIERCE

From Maciste to Maximus and Company: The Fragmented Hero in the New Epic

ANDREW B. R. ELLIOTT

Reverent and Irreverent Violence: In Defense of Spartacus, Conan, and Leonidas

JOHN ELIA

"Civilization ... ancient and wicked": Historicizing the Ideological Field of 1980s Sword and Sandal Films

KEVIN M. FLANAGAN

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

An Enduring Logic: Homer, Helen of Troy, and Narrative Mobility

LARRY T. SHILLOCK

"By Jupiter's Cock!" Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Video Games, and Camp Excess

DAVID SIMMONS

Beefy Guys and Brawny Dolls: He-Man, the Masters of the Universe, and Gay Clone Culture

MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS

Developments in Peplum Filmmaking: Disney's Hercules

CHRIS PALLANT

Hercules Diminished? Parody, Differentiation, and Emulation in The Three Stooges Meet Hercules

DANIEL O'BRIEN

About the Contributors
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Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Fotografie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780786461622
ISBN-10:	0786461624
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cornelius, Michael G
Redaktion:	Cornelius, Michael G.
Hersteller:	McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Michael G. Cornelius
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.08.2011
Gewicht:	0,365 kg

Artikel-ID: 120931054

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