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6%OFFRobert A. Rushing - Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen - 9780253022509 - V9780253022509
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Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen

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Description for Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen Paperback. Series: New Directions in National Cinemas. Num Pages: 230 pages, 20 b&w illus. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.

Muscles, six-pack abs, skin, and sweat fill the screen in the tawdry and tantalizing peplum films associated with epic Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Using techniques like slow motion and stopped time, these films instill the hero's vitality with timeless admiration and immerse the hero's body in a world that is lavishly eroticized but without sexual desire. These "sword and sandal" films represent a century-long cinematic biopolitical intervention that offers the spectator an imagined form of the male body—one free of illness, degeneracy, and the burdens of poverty—that defends goodness with brute strength and perseverance, and serves as a model ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in National Cinemas
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253022509
SKU
V9780253022509
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About Robert A. Rushing
Robert A. Rushing is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he also holds affiliate appointments in Media and Cinema Studies and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He is author of Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture and co-editor of Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s. ... Read more

Reviews for Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen
"One of the most unappreciated and oft-mocked genres of the 1960s, the Italian sword-and-sandal films are generally given the short shrift by critics, historians, and film fans alike. Therefore, anytime an entire book is devoted to the films of Hercules and his godlike brethren it is cause for celebration. [... Rushing] presents a fascinating historical overview of the genre."
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