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Robert A. Rushing

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Description: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 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 Snyder s 300.Rushing explores how the very tactile modes of representation cement the genre s ideological grip on the viewer."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen (New Directions in National Cinemas). To get started finding Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen (New Directions in National Cinemas), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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 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 Snyder s 300.Rushing explores how the very tactile modes of representation cement the genre s ideological grip on the viewer."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen (New Directions in National Cinemas). To get started finding Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen (New Directions in National Cinemas), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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