Includes bibligraphical references (p. 261), filmography (p. 263-276) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : presenting Stallone/Stallone presents / Chris Holmlund -- Staying alive : Stallone, authorship and contemporary Hollywood aesthetics / Paul Ramaeker -- Logic is the cure, meet the disease : the melos of Cobra / Scott Higgins -- I, of the tiger : self and self-obsession in the Rocky series / Eric Lichtenfeld -- Stallone and Hollywood in transition / Mark Gallagher -- Adventures in acting : Stallone the performer / Chris Holmlund -- Stallone's stomach : Cop land and the weight of actorly legitimisation / Paul McDonald -- The Rocky effect : Sylvester Stallone as sport hero / Alexandra Keller & Frazer Ward -- 'Who wouldn't want a body life that?' : masculinity, muscularity and male audiences for the films of Sylvester Stallone / Ian Huffer -- Sylvester Stallone and John Rambo's trek across Asia : politics, performance and American empire / Gina Marchetti -- Stallone, ageing and action authenticity / Yvonne Trasker.
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