Women willing to fight [[electronic resource] ] : the fighting woman in film / / edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick

• 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
• 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