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The Ultimate Stallone Reader
Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur
This book is available to read until 27th January, 2026
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About this book
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 â as actor, writer, producer, and director â 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.
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Film & VideoTable of contents
- CoverÂ
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright
- ContentsÂ
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Presenting Stallone/Stallone Presents
- Staying Alive: Stallone, Authorship and Contemporary Hollywood Aesthetics
- Logic is the Cure, Meet the Disease: The Melos of Cobra
- I, of the Tiger: Self and Self-Obsession in the Rocky Series
- Stallone and Hollywood in Transition
- Adventures in Acting: Stallone the Performer
- Stalloneâs Stomach: Cop Land and the Weight of Actorly Legitimisation
- The Rocky Effect: Sylvester Stallone as Sport Hero
- âWho wouldnât want a body like that?â: Masculinity, Muscularity and Male Audiences for the Films of Sylvester Stallone
- Sylvester Stallone and John Ramboâs Trek across Asia: Politics, Performance and American Empire
- Stallone, Ageing and Action Authenticity
- Filmography Sylvester Stallone
- Index