Yul Brynner

Exoticism, Cosmopolitanism and Screen Masculinity

AvSusanna Paasonen

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Yul Brynner’s star image was built on cosmopolitan flair, shifting tales of origin, baldness, as well as film roles as foreign rulers, freedom fighters, army officials, gunslingers and secret agents of ever-shifting ethnicities. Whether Cossacks, marauding pirate captains or cross-dressing torch singers, Brynner’s characters were invariably stand-outs.This book explores his exotic and masculine star image and its transformations from lavish Orientalist Hollywood spectacles of the 1950s to 1960s European co-productions, 1970s action films and scifi. Extensively researched, it covers the actor’s entire film catalogue, his rumoured yet unrealised projects, television work and stage appearances, as well as their international media reception. Thematically organised, the book inquires after racial casting politics, the construction of sex symbols, Brynner’s humanitarian work and the recurring poses and gestures that characterised his performance style.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:International Film Stars
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474497954

Utforska kategorier

Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Skådespelare och artister inom Kultur
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Susanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku, Finland. With an interest in studies of sexuality, affect and popular media culture, she is most recently the author of TechnoPharmacology (with Joshua Neves, Aleena Chia and Ravi Sundaram, 2022), Dependent, Distracted, Bored: Affective Formations in Networked Media (2021), Objectification: On the Difference of Sex and Sexism (with Feona Attwood, Alan McKee, John Mercer and Clarissa Smith, 2020) and Who’s Laughing Now? Feminist Tactics in Social Media (with Jenny Sundén, 2020).

Recensioner i media

This is perhaps the most extensive academic treatise ever written on Russian-born actor Yul Brynner (1920–85). Paasonen does not deliver a standard biography of the famed actor; rather, she studies Brynner in a number of ways that transcend him as an individual. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments A fantastic figure Flexible origins and exotic displays A royal presenceBodily assets, or, ‘S-E-X’ Strong, silent, ethnic types Cosmopolitan commitments Man, beast, machinePerformance style, posturing and campAn afterlife – et cetera, et cetera, et cetera References