a| 2011030754

a| 9780786461622 (pbk.)

a| 0786461624 (pbk.)

a| DLC c| DLC d| YDX d| YDXCP d| BWX d| DLC

a| pcc

a| 771.013 2| KASK

a| Of muscles and men : b| essays on the sword and sandal film / c| edited by Michael G. Cornelius.

a| Jefferson, N.C. : b| McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c| c2011.

a| vi, 212 p. ; c| 23 cm.

a| Includes bibliographical references and index.

a| Introduction: the functions and forms of the sword and sandal film / Michael G. Cornelius -- Hercules, politics, and movies / Maria Elena D Amelio -- Hero trouble: blood, politics, and kinship in Pasolini's Medea / Kristi M. Wilson -- To do or die manfully : performing heteronormativity in recent epic films / Jerry B. Pierce -- From maciste to maximus and company: the fragmented hero in the new epic / Andrew B. R. Elliott -- Reverent and irreverent violence: in defense of Spartacus, Conan, and Leonidas / John Elia -- Civilization- ancient and wicked : historicizing the ideological field of 1980s sword and sandal films / Kevin M. Flanagan -- Homer's lies, Brad Pitt's thighs: revisiting the pre-Oedipal mother and the German wartime father in Wolfgang Petersen's Troy / Robert C. Pirro -- An enduring logic: Homer, Helen of Troy, and narrative mobility / Larry T. Shillock -- By Jupiter's cock! Spartacus: blood and sand, video games, and camp excess / David Simmons -- Beefy guys and brawny dolls: He-Man, the Masters of the Universe, and Gay clone culture / Michael G. Cornelius -- Developments in peplum filmmaking: Disney's Hercules / Chris Pallant -- Hercules diminished? parody, differentiation, and emulation in the Three Stooges meet Hercules / Daniel O'Brien.

a| "Few movie genres have highlighted the male body more effectively than the "sword-and-sandal" film, where the rippling torso and the bulging muscle are displayed for all to appreciate. Carrying his ubiquitously phallic sword and dressed in traditional garb calculated to highlight his magnificent physique"--Provided by publisher.

a| Filmtheorie: Genres

a| Cornelius, Michael G.

a| boek

b| KASK c| KUB j| 771.013 / CORN / 2011 p| 000050524535

a| boek