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The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur
Chris (Edi Holmlund
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Description for The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur
Paperback. Editor(s): Holmlund, Chris. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: APB; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 508.
Sylvester Stallone has been a defining part of American film for nearly four decades. He has made an impact on world entertainment in a surprisingly diverse range of capacities - as actor, writer, producer, and director - all while maintaining a monolithic presence. With The Ultimate Stallone Reader, this icon finally receives concerted academic attention. Eleven original essays by internationally-known scholars examine Stallone's contributions to mainstream cinema, independent film, and television. This volume also offers innovative approaches to star, gender, and celebrity studies, performance analysis, genre criticism, industry and reception inquiry, and the question of what it means to be ... Read more
Sylvester Stallone has been a defining part of American film for nearly four decades. He has made an impact on world entertainment in a surprisingly diverse range of capacities - as actor, writer, producer, and director - all while maintaining a monolithic presence. With The Ultimate Stallone Reader, this icon finally receives concerted academic attention. Eleven original essays by internationally-known scholars examine Stallone's contributions to mainstream cinema, independent film, and television. This volume also offers innovative approaches to star, gender, and celebrity studies, performance analysis, genre criticism, industry and reception inquiry, and the question of what it means to be ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231169813
SKU
V9780231169813
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99-1
About Chris (Edi Holmlund
Chris Holmlund is Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor of Cinema Studies and French at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Impossible Bodies (2002), editor of American Cinema of the 1990s (2008), co-editor of Contemporary American Independent Film (2005) and Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary (1997).
Reviews for The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur
This wide-ranging collection of perceptive and provocative essays turns the iconic figure and films of Sylvester Stallone into a dynamic conversation not only about Stallone himself but also about key issues and debates in cinema culture today.
Timothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania
Timothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania