The Ultimate Stallone Reader : : Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur / / ed. by Chris Holmlund.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Gallagher, Mark,; Higgins, Scott,; Holmlund, Chris,; Huffer, Ian,; Keller, Alexandra,; Lichtenfeld, Eric,; Marchetti, Gina,; McDonald, Paul,; Ramaeker, Paul,; Tasker, Yvonne,; Ward, Frazer,
• HerausgeberIn: Holmlund, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 20 B&W
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Contributors --; Introduction: Presenting Stallone/Stallone Presents --; Staying Alive: Stallone, Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood Aesthetics --; Logic is the Cure, Meet the Disease: The Melos of Cobra --; I, of the Tiger: Self and Self-Obsession in the Rocky Series --; Stallone and Hollywood in Transition --; Adventures in Acting: Stallone the Performer --; Stallone's Stomach: Cop Land and the Weight of Actorly Legitimisation --; The Rocky Effect: Sylvester Stallone as Sport Hero --; 'Who wouldn't want a body like that?': Masculinity, Muscularity and Male Audiences for the Films of Sylvester Stallone --; Sylvester Stallone and John Rambo's Trek across Asia: Politics, Performance and American Empire --; Stallone, Ageing and Action Authenticity --; Filmography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231850643; 9783110665864
• DOI: 10.7312/holm16980
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Chris Holmlund.

Sylvester Stallone has been a defining part of American film for nearly four decades. He has made an impact on world entertainment in a surprisingly diverse range of capacities - as actor, writer, producer, and director - all while maintaining a monolithic presence. With The Ultimate Stallone Reader, this icon finally receives concerted academic attention. Eleven original essays by internationally-known scholars examine Stallone's contributions to mainstream cinema, independent film, and television. This volume also offers innovative approaches to star, gender, and celebrity studies, performance analysis, genre criticism, industry and reception inquiry, and the question of what it means to be an auteur. Ultimately, The Ultimate Stallone Reader investigates the place that Sylvester Stallone occupies within an industry and a culture that have both undergone much evolution, and how his work has reflected and even driven these changes.