Tuesday 15 September 2009

In fond memory of Patrick Swayze



The power behind Film Studies For Free's e-throne is a 'person of a certain age', making her (chrono) logically susceptible to a good number of the many charms and talents of actor Patrick Swayze. She is, thus, saddened by the news of his untimely death.

Swayze was an actor of surprisingly slight physical stature, but one who loomed very large and very beautifully, not only in Hollywood and independent cinema, and, of course, in the estimation of his many fans and admirers, but also in the musings of quite a few Film Studies scholars. In particular relation to the latter, he helped to inspire -- FSFF is sure -- many worthwhile studies of (post-)modern gender and sexuality, 'looking relations', and acting in film.

In fond memory of his work for the screen, a few links to openly-accessible items of some of that scholarship are given below:


Yvonne Tasker, Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema (London: Routledge, 1993)

Christina Lane, Feminist Hollwyood: From Born in Flames to Point Break (Wayne State University Press, 2000)


John Izod, Myth, Mind, and the Screen: Understanding the Heroes of Our Times (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

your link for the katherine barscay article opens a page for the kathryn kane article. do you have the link for the barscay article? i'd love to read it. also thank you for this post!

Catherine Grant said...

Whoops! Sorry about that - I scrambled the links, which happens from time to time. Many thanks for pointing out. The Barscay was a particularly good read, as I recall. Thanks again for taking the trouble to comment.