‘Who wouldn’t want a body like that?’: Masculinity, Muscularity and Male Audiences for the Films of Sylvester Stallone

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Notes on Contributors xii
5. Introduction: Presenting Stallone/Stallone Presents 1
6. Staying Alive: Stallone, Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood Aesthetics 27
7. Logic is the Cure, Meet the Disease: The Melos of Cobra 53
8. I, of the Tiger: Self and Self-Obsession in the Rocky Series 75
9. Stallone and Hollywood in Transition 97
10. Adventures in Acting: Stallone the Performer 121
11. Stallone’s Stomach: Cop Land and the Weight of Actorly Legitimisation 147
12. The Rocky Effect: Sylvester Stallone as Sport Hero 171
13. ‘Who wouldn’t want a body like that?’: Masculinity, Muscularity and Male Audiences for the Films of Sylvester Stallone 197
14. Sylvester Stallone and John Rambo’s Trek across Asia: Politics, Performance and American Empire 217
15. Stallone, Ageing and Action Authenticity 241
16. Filmography 263
17. Index 277