Tabla de Contenidos: “…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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“…In order to show how our societies and minds still need to be manumitted, the essays in this collection examine books of fiction by André Brink, Octavia Butler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Cristina Garcia, Edward P. Jones, Paule Marshall, Phyllis Perry, Susan Straight, and books of non-fiction by Malcom X or John Edgar Wideman ; as well as works by poets like Fred D’Aguiar or Marilyn Nelson, by playwrights like Robbie Mc Cauley, Derek Walcott or August Wilson, and by visual artists like David Boxer, Christopher Cozier, Glenn Ligon, or Kara Walker. …”