Description
The muscle-bound male body is a perennial feature of classically-inflected action cinema. This book reassesses these films as a cinematic form, focusing on the depiction of heroic masculinity. In particular, Hercules in his many incarnations has greatly influenced popular cultural interpretations of manliness and the exaggerated male form.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: MEN AS MEN SHOULD BE 1. Hercules Unchained 2. Hercules Reformed 3. Hercules Diminished 4. Hercules Rebooted 5. I'm Spartacus! PART II: TAMING THE WOMEN WITH LOVE OR DEATH 6. The Loves of Hercules 7. The Temptress from Beyond 8. Fight Like a Man PART III: THIS THING OF DARKNESS 9. White Man's Burden? 10. Doom's Children 11. This is Sparta! Bibliography
