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Yul Brynner: Exoticism, Cosmopolitanism and Screen Masculinity

Yul Brynner: Exoticism, Cosmopolitanism and Screen Masculinity - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Susanna PaasonenSeries:International Film StarsPublish date:2023-03-17Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781474497947ISBN-10:1474497942UPC:9781474497947Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Acting & Auditioning, FilmBook Topic:History & Criticism, ReferenceSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.3316Product ID:SCSTXHDKC1

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781474497947ISBN-10:1474497942UPC:9781474497947Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Acting & Auditioning, FilmBook Topic:History & Criticism, ReferenceSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.3316Product ID:SCSTXHDKC1

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 Sund?n, 2020).

University of Turku, Finland


Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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