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  Your Legacy is More Than a Name: Creed and the Resurrection of the Boxing Film

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  Rebecca Sheehan United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney

  April 20, 2016

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  know I’m not a mistake.” The audience’s willingness to cheer for Donny matters more to the film’s ...
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  The Body That Can't Win

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  Matt Thomas University of Iowa

  August 13, 2010

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  The Body That Can't Win The Expendables the body Stallone Rocky Rambo masculinity action Curator's Note Sylvester Stallone’s body used to be relatively ordinary looking. Carl Weathers is the superior physical specimen in Rocky (1976)   and Rocky ...
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  “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed

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  Glen Donnar RMIT University

  April 18, 2016

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  “If I fight, you fight”: Sly Stallone and the aged action star’s triumphant submission in Creed Sylvester Stallone Rocky masculinity boxing film ageing action stardom 80s action Curator's Note The training montage is a genre staple of the boxing film ...