Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema

by Yvonne Tasker

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041509223X
• ISBN13: 9780415092234
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

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A fantastic contribution to film and cultural studies - very insightful and interesting -essential to those interested in feminist film thory, masculinity, action film.