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UNINA9910456432403321 |
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Titolo |
Women willing to fight [[electronic resource] ] : the fighting woman in film / / edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick |
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Newcastle, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-03612-2 |
9786612036125 |
1-4438-0476-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (215 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AndrisSilke |
FrederickUrsula |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women in motion pictures |
Action and adventure films - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Filmography: p. [189]-196. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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