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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 phallic sword and dressed in traditional garb calculated to bring attention to his magnificent physique, the sword-and-sandal hero is capable of toppling great nations, rescuing heroines, defeating monsters, and generally saving the day. Each of these essays examines the issues of masculinity and utility addressed in the sword-and-sandal genre. The contributors offer insights on a film form which showcases its male protagonists as heroic, violent, fleshy, and, in the end, extremely useful.
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Table of Contents
Introduction—Of Muscles and Men: The Forms and Functions 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
About the Contributors
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