Action Hero vs. Tragic Hero
| dc.contributor.author | Sánta, Balázs | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-06-26 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The paper explores the possibility of analyzing Ted Kotcheff’s 1985 film, First Blood , the first piece of Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo series, from the perspective of dramatic structure as conceived in Schelling’s concept of tragedy and Schiller’s notion of the sublime. Perplexing as this critical context may appear at first, the paper argues for a reassessment of the movie’s aesthetic qualities as its protagonist is placed between Hollywood’s male-gendered stock figure of the action hero and the more complex character of the tragic hero, familiar from classical drama. Taking account of Rambo’s reception in recent cultural studies discourse regarding gender criticism and American post-Vietnam War cinema, the essay attempts to show the correlation between some of the aesthetic tenets of German idealism and the consequences of a close-reading approach to this popular classic. (BS) | en |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 23 No. 2 (2017) , | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 2732-0421 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1218-7364 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 2 | |
| dc.identifier.jtitle | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2437/294896 | en |
| dc.identifier.volume | 23 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.relation | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7319 | |
| dc.rights.access | Open Access | |
| dc.rights.owner | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies | |
| dc.subject | Ted Kotcheff | en |
| dc.subject | First Blood | en |
| dc.subject | Sylvester Stallone | en |
| dc.subject | film studies | en |
| dc.subject | sublime | en |
| dc.title | Action Hero vs. Tragic Hero | en |
| dc.type | folyóiratcikk | hu |
| dc.type | article | en |
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