The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231169817 ISBN 13: 9780231169813

Publisher: Wallflower Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Chris Holmlund is Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor of Cinema Studies and French at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Impossible Bodies (2002), editor of American Cinema of the 1990s (2008), co-editor of Contemporary American Independent Film (2005) and Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary (1997).

Review

This wide-ranging collection of perceptive and provocative essays turns the iconic figure and films of Sylvester Stallone into a dynamic conversation not only about Stallone himself but also about key issues and debates in cinema culture today. (Timothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania)

Edition details

• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0231169817
• ISBN 13: 9780231169813
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 286
• Editor: Holmlund Chris