The Ultimate Stallone Reader
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The Ultimate Stallone Reader

Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur

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The Ultimate Stallone Reader

Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur

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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 an auteur. Ultimately, The Ultimate Stallone Reader investigates the place that Sylvester Stallone occupies within an industry and a culture that have both undergone much evolution, and how his work has reflected and even driven these changes.

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Publisher
WallFlower Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780231850643
Topic
Medien & darstellende Kunst
Subtopic
Filmgeschichte & Filmkritik

Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents 
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Introduction: Presenting Stallone/Stallone Presents
  9. Staying Alive: Stallone, Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood Aesthetics
  10. Logic is the Cure, Meet the Disease: The Melos of Cobra
  11. I, of the Tiger: Self and Self-Obsession in the Rocky Series
  12. Stallone and Hollywood in Transition
  13. Adventures in Acting: Stallone the Performer
  14. Stallone’s Stomach: Cop Land and the Weight of Actorly Legitimisation
  15. The Rocky Effect: Sylvester Stallone as Sport Hero
  16. ‘Who wouldn’t want a body like that?’: Masculinity, Muscularity and Male Audiences for the Films of Sylvester Stallone
  17. Sylvester Stallone and John Rambo’s Trek across Asia: Politics, Performance and American Empire
  18. Stallone, Ageing and Action Authenticity
  19. Filmography Sylvester Stallone
  20. Index