Titlebook: Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film; The Mighty Sons of H Daniel O’Brien Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Mac

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Book 2014The 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.

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978-1-349-48102-6Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014

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Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat,Robert R. Wagnerin forms linked to classical Greco-Roman culture. Examples include muscle-bound heroes of Italian silent film, the . cycle launched by . (Pietro Francisci, 1958), Hollywood epics such as . (Stanley Kubrick, 1960) and the 1980s sword-and-sorcery cycle and post-millennial epics such as . (Wolfgang Pet

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F. H. Bronson,Claude Desjardinsns of Hercules, or Herakles, may date back to the eighth century BC, with more permutations than any other mythological figure, characterised variously as both tragic and comic, a lecher, a glutton, a romantic, a symbol of virtue, an intellectual and an embodiment of extraordinary physical strength

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Neural Control of Gonadotropin Secretionms in terms of academic debates in this field. From its initial reception onwards, the film’s representation of Hercules has been identified as substantially and significantly different from that embodied by Steve Reeves in . and . (Francisci, 1959). I am interested in the nature of this difference,

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Henry P. David Ph.D.,Henry P. Mclntyre Ph.D.e film is linked to the Italian-produced . films on various levels: chronological, thematic, industrial and economic. It was financed and distributed by Hollywood major Columbia Pictures and filmed in 1961, the mid-point of the . cycle and shortly after the US release of . in 1960. Very few American

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Henry P. David Ph.D.,Henry P. Mclntyre Ph.D.nd television, as with . (Arthur A. Seidelman, 1969), a low-budget comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as an immature, arrogant demigod. The US-Italian co-production . (Luigi Cozzi, 1983), starring bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno, revived the hero as a sword-and-sorcery protagonist whose bulky physique s