TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Mindful violence? Responses to the Rambo series' shifting aesthetic of aggression
JO  - New review of film and television studies
A1  - Jones, Steve
SP  - 464
EP  - 479
VL  - 10
IS  - 4
N2  - Rambo (2008) marked the return of Sylvester Stallone's iconic action hero. What is most striking about the fourth film (as the response from reviewers testifies), is its graphic violence. My intention here is to critically engage with Rambo (2008) as rewriting the series' established aesthetic of violence. My overarching aim is to highlight how the popular press has sought to read the 2008 version of Rambo according to the discursive narratives surrounding Stallone's 1980s action films. The negative response to Rambo, I argue, stems from relying on critical patterns that do not fit the film itself.<p /> 
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SN  - 1740-0309
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2012.717487
ID  - ref1
ER  -