ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter, rather than considering another specifi c example of how popular fi lm and music work in tandem to leverage pleasure and possibility on behalf of the screen masculinities they construct, takes a somewhat different approach. It looks at John Travolta, or more precisely, John Travolta’s star persona, and considers how it has been shaped by media convergence, specifi cally by generic exchanges between popular fi lm and music cultures, action and musical genres. Considering common denominators across a varied array of fi lms-the engaging and occasionally controversial body spectacles that repeatedly reinvent Travolta as a song and dance man-we fi nd a star whose persona has been built on performative versions of masculinity that trouble gender boundaries.
