Descended from Hercules
- Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen
- Indbinding:
- Hardback
- Sideantal:
- 224
- Udgivet:
- 15. oktober 2016
- Størrelse:
- 152x229x20 mm.
- Vægt:
- 467 g.
- 2-3 uger.
- 26. november 2024
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- 1 valgfrit digitalt ugeblad
- 20 timers lytning og læsning
- Adgang til 70.000+ titler
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- 1 valgfrit digitalt ugeblad
- 20 timers lytning og læsning
- Adgang til 70.000+ titler
- Ingen binding
Abonnementet koster 75 kr./md.
Ingen binding og kan opsiges når som helst.
Beskrivelse af Descended from Hercules
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 heroΓÇÖs vitality with timeless admiration and immerse the heroΓÇÖs 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 bodyΓÇöone free of illness, degeneracy, and the burdens of povertyΓÇöthat defends goodness with brute strength and perseverance, and serves as a model of ideal citizenry.Robert A. Rushing traces these epic heroes from Maciste in Cabiria in the early silent era to contemporary transnational figures like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian, and to films such as Zach SnyderΓÇÖs 300.Rushing explores how the very tactile modes of representation cement the genreΓÇÖs ideological grip on the viewer.
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