Heroines of film and television : portrayals in popular culture / edited by Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter, and Bob Batchelor.

Other author Jones, Norma, 1972- editor.
Other author Bajac-Carter, Maja, 1979- editor.
Other author Batchelor, Bob editor.
Format Book
PublicationLanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Descriptionx, 256 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The erotic heroine and the politics of gender at work: a feminist reading of Mad Men's Joan Harris / Suzy D'Enbeau and Patrice M. Buzzanell -- Burn one down: Nancy Botwin as (post)feminist (anti)heroine / Katie Snyder -- Choosing her "fae"te: subversive sexuality and Lost Girl's Re/evolutionary female hero / Jennifer K. Stuller -- Torture, rape, action heroines, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / Jeffrey A. Brown -- The maternal hero in Tarantino's Kill Bill / Maura Grady -- We've seen this deadly web before: repackaging the femme fatale and representing the superhero(ine) as neo-noir "black widow" in Sin City / Ryan Castillo and Katie Gibson -- Romance, comedy, conspiracy: the paranoid heroine in contemporary romantic comedy / Pedro Ponce -- Conflicted hybridity: negotiating the warrior princess archetype in Willow / Cassandra Bausman -- The woman who fell from the sky: Cowboys and Aliens' hybrid heroine / Cynthia J. Miller -- Her story, too: Final Fantasy X, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and the feminist hero's journey / Catherine Bailey Kyle -- Bollywood marriages: portrayals of matrimony in Hindi popular cinema / Rekha Sharma and Carol A. Savery -- The enduring woman: race, revenge, and self-determination in Chloe, Love Is Calling You / Robin R. Means Coleman -- The dark, twisted magical girls: Shojo heroines in Puella Magi Madoka Magica / Lien Fan Shen -- Women on the quarterdeck: the female captain as adventure hero, 1994-2009 / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- The girl who lived: reading Harry Potter as a sacrificial and loving heroine / Norma Jones -- "It's about power and it's about women": gender and the political economy of superheroes in Wonder Woman and Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Carolyn Cocca.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013040492
ISBN9781442231498 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1442231491 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1995.9 .W6 H465 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold