Women willing to fight : the fighting woman in film /

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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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Andris, Silke, Frederick, Ursula
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2007.
Temas:
Women in motion pictures.
Action and adventure films > History and criticism.
Femmes au cinéma.
Films d'aventures > Histoire et critique.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Action and adventure films
Women in motion pictures
Films.
Vrouwen.
Vechten.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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