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A New(er) Hollywood for the 1980s: Nighthawks’ Casting, Creative Personnel and Generic Hybridity A New(er) Hollywood for the 1980s: Nighthawks’ Casting, Creative Personnel and Generic Hybridity
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Reviving (The Old) Global Hollywood: Victory’s Creative Team and Market Position Reviving (The Old) Global Hollywood: Victory’s Creative Team and Market Position
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Early 1980s Stallone: Cosmopolitanism, National Identity and Global Stardom Early 1980s Stallone: Cosmopolitanism, National Identity and Global Stardom
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Star Positioning, Display and Industrial Logic Star Positioning, Display and Industrial Logic
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Bibliography Bibliography
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Stallone and Hollywood in Transition
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Published:April 2014
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Abstract
This chapter discusses Sylvester Stallone's 1981 films, Nighthawks and Victory. Nighthawks provides a view of Hollywood on the brink of a new global expansion. It also locates Stallone amid presumably complementary textual elements such as setting, genre signifiers, and other story — world attributes that suit his talents and existing persona. In contrast, Victory showcases the kinds of locations, casts, and storylines long associated with Hollywood internationalism during the late classical era. Building on the star template established through the Rocky films, Victory's promotion and publicity emphasize Stallone's physicality, and the film narrates his character's assimilation into European cultures, settings, and sports. In both films, casting choices, generic appeals, and narrative elements all indicate the industry's specific attempts to attract diverse viewership locally and internationally.
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