Women willing to fight: the fighting woman in film
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle, UK Cambridge Scholars 2007
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Beschreibung:Filmography: p. [189]-196
Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-188) and index
Why women willing to fight? An introduction / Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick -- The neomyth in film : the woman warrior from Joan of Arc to Ellen Ripley / Barbara Creed -- Just a woman among the cyborgs : Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: judgement day / Catherine Summerhayes -- Past, present, future : finding treasure in the lives of Lara Croft / Ursula Frederick -- Violence, duty and choice : the military woman in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Yvonne Tasker -- Million dollar baby : the making and unmaking of the female boxer's body / Silke Andris -- Fighting to be seen : looking for women in the West, from The searchers to The missing / Martin Flanagan -- Belles with attitude : genealogies of the new Hollywood wisecracking action heroine / Polona Petek -- Zhang Ziyi, "Martial Arthouse" and the transnational Nuxia / Leon Hunt -- Superheroine : women as martial artists in early twenty-first century cinema / Catherine Driscoll
Women Willing to Fight is a collection of essays that explores the presence of the fighting woman in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Drawn from a variety of genres, the authors examine the changing role, image and position of this figure in film over recent decades. The increasing dominance of this character and her repositioning as a protagonist reinvigorates discussion concerning the dynamics of film narrative and spectacle. Each contribution takes as its focus a central character from the ..
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ISBN:1282036122
1443804762
1847181422
9781282036123
9781443804769
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