Women willing to fight the fighting woman in film

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Andris, Silke (-), Frederick, Ursula
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars 2007.
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Table of 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.