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.
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O’Brien, D. (2014). Classical masculinity and the spectacular body on film: The mighty sons of Hercules. Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film: The Mighty Sons of Hercules (pp. 1–191). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137384713
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