03280nam 2200601 a 450 991045643240332120200520144314.01-282-03612-297866120361251-4438-0476-2(CKB)2420000000004697(EBL)1114193(OCoLC)815768898(SSID)ssj0000313498(PQKBManifestationID)12070669(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313498(PQKBWorkID)10358345(PQKB)10095066(MiAaPQ)EBC1114193(Au-PeEL)EBL1114193(CaPaEBR)ebr10655288(CaONFJC)MIL203612(EXLCZ)99242000000000469720080229d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWomen willing to fight[electronic resource] the fighting woman in film /edited by Silke Andris and Ursula FrederickNewcastle, U.K. Cambridge Scholars20071 online resource (215 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84718-142-2 Filmography: p. [189]-196.Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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, image and position of this figure in film over recent decades. The increasing dominance of this character and her repositioning as a protagonist reinvigorates discussion concerning the dynamics of film narrative and spectacle. Each contribution takes as its focus a central character from the ...Women in motion picturesAction and adventure filmsHistory and criticismElectronic books.Women in motion pictures.Action and adventure filmsHistory and criticism.791.43082Andris Silke1000154Frederick Ursula1000155MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456432403321Women willing to fight2295744UNINA