Women willing to fight [[electronic resource] ] : the fighting woman in film / / edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Newcastle, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (215 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43082 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women in motion pictures |
| Action and adventure films - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
AndrisSilke
FrederickUrsula
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Filmography: p. [189]-196. |
| Includes bibliographical references and index. | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 ... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Women willing to fight |
| ISBN: | 1-282-03612-2 |
| 9786612036125 | |
| 1-4438-0476-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456432403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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