Beefcake
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Beefcake is a performance or a form of glamour photography depicting a large and muscular male body.[1] Beefcake is also a publication genre. A role a person plays in a performance may be called beefcake. The term was believed to be first used by Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky.[2]
Actors typecast as beefcake
Beefcake poses by male actors were used far less frequently than
1970 to present
The 1970s proved a golden age for beefcake with the debut of Playgirl magazine and its completely nude pictorials of men, Cosmopolitan magazine's famous semi-nude centerfolds of actors including Burt Reynolds, and the rise of pornography directed at both female and gay male audiences in both magazines and films.
Today, it is common to see beefcake shots of male sex symbols on the cover of general interest magazines. For many actors and models, shirtless poses are their most revealing, in line with their conservative images.
In advertisement, beefcake male models have become a popular ingredient for "spicy" (and often humorous) commercial spots; for example, British pop star
Many professional male bodybuilders advertise their services, offering advice concerning nutrition and training, sometimes marketing their videos in which training programmes are demonstrated.
A 1999 film of the same name, Beefcake, details the history of the Athletic Model Guild, an early company known for their photos of men in various publications.
See also
- Beefcake magazine
- Himbo
References
- ISBN 9780791445136. Archivedfrom the original on 2022-10-31. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
- ^ p.120 Hofler, Robert The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson Carroll and Graf 2005
- ^ a b c Wilner, Norman (June 14, 2012). "Schwarzenegger/ Stallone: The Rise Of Beefcake Cinema". Now. Media Central Corporation. Archived from the original on March 5, 2022. Retrieved March 5, 2022.
- ^ Reimann, Tom (June 25, 2021). "How Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Eraser' Marked the Death of 80s Action". Collider. Valnet, Inc. Retrieved March 5, 2022.
- ^ a b Carr, Jay (August 27, 1983). "Review: 'Hercules' labors in vain". The Boston Globe. Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC. Retrieved March 5, 2022.
Further reading
- Padva, Gilad (2006). Foucauldian Muscles: Celebrating the Male Body in Thom Fitzgerald's Beefcake. Film Criticism 30 (2), 43–66.