The Ultimate Stallone Reader

The Ultimate Stallone Reader

Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur

Edited by: Chris Holmlund

Columbia University Press | 2014

https://doi.org/10.7312/holm16980

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Eleven original essays by internationally-known scholars examine Stallone’s contributions to mainstream cinema, independent film, and television

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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).

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Timothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania:
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.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	ix
Notes on Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	xii
Introduction: Presenting Stallone/Stallone Presents Chris Holmlund Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Staying Alive: Stallone, Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood Aesthetics Paul Ramaeker Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	27
Logic is the Cure, Meet the Disease: The Melos of Cobra Scott Higgins Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	53
I, of the Tiger: Self and Self-Obsession in the Rocky Series Eric Lichtenfeld Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	75
Stallone and Hollywood in Transition Mark Gallagher Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	97
Adventures in Acting: Stallone the Performer Chris Holmlund Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	121
Stallone’s Stomach: Cop Land and the Weight of Actorly Legitimisation Paul McDonald Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	147
The Rocky Effect: Sylvester Stallone as Sport Hero Alexandra Keller and Frazer Ward Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	171
‘Who wouldn’t want a body like that?’: Masculinity, Muscularity and Male Audiences for the Films of Sylvester Stallone Ian Huffer Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	197
Sylvester Stallone and John Rambo’s Trek across Asia: Politics, Performance and American Empire Gina Marchetti Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	217
Stallone, Ageing and Action Authenticity Yvonne Tasker Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	241
Filmography Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	263
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	277

The Ultimate Stallone Reader

Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur

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