Women willing to fight the fighting woman in film / edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick.

Other author Andris, Silke.
Other author Frederick, Ursula.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNewcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars,
Descriptionvi, 207 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Subjects
Women in motion pictures.
Action and adventure films--History and criticism.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteFilmography: p. [189]-196.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [178]-188) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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LCCN 2008360566
ISBN1847181422
ISBN9781847181428

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