Titlebook: Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film; The Mighty Sons of H Daniel O’Brien Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Mac

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Hercules Unchainedisation, individualism and humanism, and intellectual prowess: ‘Every age in Greece recast Herakles in its own image, and he thus became the incarnation of her history and aspirations’ (Galinsky, 1972, pp. 148–9). While this parallel may be criticised as simplistic, the progression outlined by Galin

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I’m Spartacus!and iconography is beyond question. Leon Hunt describes the crucified body as contradictor)’, exhibiting passivity and control, humiliation and nobility (of sacrifice), eroticism and (religious) transcendence (Hunt, 1993, p. 73). Over the centuries, these contradictions have been carried over and of

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The Loves of Herculesmasculinity and signifying “biological” disparity between the genders’ (Bolin, 1996, p, 126). A strong, muscular figure can only be male, as women, by their nature, cannot attain this form, although there are female bodybuilders and, moreover, a physique achieved through bodybuilding is itself hardl

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The Temptress from Beyond island. Oomphale commands an army of men but seems concerned mainly with selecting a succession of male sexual partners, who are routinely killed and embalmed as trophies once she has tired of them. An tinea’s ambitions, however, are not confined to Atlantis or her own sexual appetite, extending ac

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Doom’s Children. 148). By implication at least, these same values are denied the non-white body, marked as an alien entity that lacks true masculinity. This approach may be criticised as over-generalised and overly simplistic, suggesting as it does that racial tensions within America were being addressed and worke

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