Beyond bombshells : the new action heroine in popular culture / / Jeffrey A. Brown |
Autore | Brown Jeffrey A. <1966-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Soggetto topico |
Women heroes in literature
Women in popular culture Women heroes in motion pictures Mass media and women Action and adventure films - History and criticism Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism Heroines in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4968-0323-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Torture, Rape, Action Heroines, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; 2. Teams, Partners, Romance, and Action Heroines; 3. Ethnicity and New Action Heroines; 4. Panthers and Vixens Black Superheroines, Sexuality, and Stereotypes in Contemporary Comic Books; 5. Supermoms? Maternity and the Monstrous-Feminine in Superhero Comics; 6. Sex, Romance, and the Teenage Superheroine; 7. Girl Revolutionaries Neoliberalist, Postfeminist, and Feminist Heroines; 8. Pretty Little Killers; CONCLUSION. Still Wondering about Wonder Woman; WORKS CITED; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G
HI; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466862303321 |
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Beyond bombshells : the new action heroine in popular culture / / Jeffrey A. Brown |
Autore | Brown Jeffrey A. <1966-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Soggetto topico |
Women heroes in literature
Women in popular culture Women heroes in motion pictures Mass media and women Action and adventure films - History and criticism Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism Heroines in literature |
ISBN | 1-4968-0323-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Torture, Rape, Action Heroines, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; 2. Teams, Partners, Romance, and Action Heroines; 3. Ethnicity and New Action Heroines; 4. Panthers and Vixens Black Superheroines, Sexuality, and Stereotypes in Contemporary Comic Books; 5. Supermoms? Maternity and the Monstrous-Feminine in Superhero Comics; 6. Sex, Romance, and the Teenage Superheroine; 7. Girl Revolutionaries Neoliberalist, Postfeminist, and Feminist Heroines; 8. Pretty Little Killers; CONCLUSION. Still Wondering about Wonder Woman; WORKS CITED; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G
HI; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796034103321 |
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Beyond bombshells : the new action heroine in popular culture / / Jeffrey A. Brown |
Autore | Brown Jeffrey A. <1966-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Soggetto topico |
Women heroes in literature
Women in popular culture Women heroes in motion pictures Mass media and women Action and adventure films - History and criticism Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism Heroines in literature |
ISBN | 1-4968-0323-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Torture, Rape, Action Heroines, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; 2. Teams, Partners, Romance, and Action Heroines; 3. Ethnicity and New Action Heroines; 4. Panthers and Vixens Black Superheroines, Sexuality, and Stereotypes in Contemporary Comic Books; 5. Supermoms? Maternity and the Monstrous-Feminine in Superhero Comics; 6. Sex, Romance, and the Teenage Superheroine; 7. Girl Revolutionaries Neoliberalist, Postfeminist, and Feminist Heroines; 8. Pretty Little Killers; CONCLUSION. Still Wondering about Wonder Woman; WORKS CITED; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G
HI; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818333603321 |
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Dangerous curves [[electronic resource] ] : action heroines, gender, fetishism, and popular culture / / Jeffrey A. Brown |
Autore | Brown Jeffrey A. <1966-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Women heroes in motion pictures
Heroines in literature Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism Women in popular culture |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-01018-6
9786613010186 1-60473-715-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Introduction: "WHERE ALL WOMEN WEAR SPANDEX AND KNOW KUNG FU"; 1) GENDER AND THE ACTION HEROINE: Hardbodies and the Point of No Return; 2) GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND TOUGHNESS: The Bad Girls of Action Film and Comic Books; 3) ALIAS, FETISHISM, AND PYGMALION FANTASIES; 4) "PLAY WITH ME": Sexy Cyborgs, Game Girls, and Digital Babes; 5) IF LOOKS COULD KILL: Power, Revenge, and Stripper Movies; 6) "SHE CAN DO ANYTHING!": The Action Heroine and the Modern (Post-Feminist) Girl; 7) "EXOTIC BEAUTIES": Ethnicity and Comic Book Superheroines; 8) KINKY VAMPIRES AND ACTION HEROINES
9) WHEN THE ACTION HEROINE LOOKS Conclusion: WONDERING ABOUT WONDER WOMAN: Action Heroines as Multi-Fetish; WORKS CITED; INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458787503321 |
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Dangerous curves : action heroines, gender, fetishism, and popular culture / / Jeffrey A. Brown |
Autore | Brown Jeffrey A. <1966-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Women heroes in motion pictures
Heroines in literature Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism Women in popular culture |
ISBN |
1-283-01018-6
9786613010186 1-60473-715-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | CONTENTS; Introduction: "WHERE ALL WOMEN WEAR SPANDEX AND KNOW KUNG FU"; 1) GENDER AND THE ACTION HEROINE: Hardbodies and the Point of No Return; 2) GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND TOUGHNESS: The Bad Girls of Action Film and Comic Books; 3) ALIAS, FETISHISM, AND PYGMALION FANTASIES; 4) "PLAY WITH ME": Sexy Cyborgs, Game Girls, and Digital Babes; 5) IF LOOKS COULD KILL: Power, Revenge, and Stripper Movies; 6) "SHE CAN DO ANYTHING!": The Action Heroine and the Modern (Post-Feminist) Girl; 7) "EXOTIC BEAUTIES": Ethnicity and Comic Book Superheroines; 8) KINKY VAMPIRES AND ACTION HEROINES; 9) WHEN THE ACTION HEROINE LOOKS Conclusion: WONDERING ABOUT WONDER WOMAN: Action Heroines as Multi-Fetish; WORKS CITED; INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791779403321 |
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Domestic allegories of political desire [[electronic resource] ] : the Black heroine's text at the turn of the century / / Claudia Tate |
Autore | Tate Claudia |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009/352042 |
Soggetto topico |
Domestic fiction, American - History and criticism
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism Politics and literature - United States African American women - Intellectual life African American women in literature Heroines in literature Marriage in literature Desire in literature Allegory |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-52608-4
0-19-536080-X 1-4294-0557-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Introduction: A Highway through the Wilderness of Post-Reconstruction; 1. Maternal Discourses as Antebellum Social Protest; 2. Legacies of Intersecting Cultural Conventions; 3. To Vote and to Marry: Locating a Gendered and Historicized Model of Interpretation; 4. Allegories of Gender and Class as Discourses of Political Desire; 5. Sexual Discourses of Political Reform of the Post-Reconstruction Era; 6. Revising the Patriarchal Texts of Husband and Wife in Real and Fictive Worlds; 7. From Domestic Happiness to Racial Despair; 8. Domestic Tragedy as Racial Protest; Notes
Selected BibliographyIndex |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458942203321 |
Tate Claudia
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Domestic allegories of political desire [[electronic resource] ] : the Black heroine's text at the turn of the century / / Claudia Tate |
Autore | Tate Claudia |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1992 |
Descrizione fisica | x, 302 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 813.009/352042 |
Soggetto topico |
Domestic fiction, American - History and criticism
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism Politics and literature - United States African American women - Intellectual life African American women in literature Heroines in literature Marriage in literature Desire in literature Allegory |
ISBN |
019536080X
9780195360806 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795735303321 |
Tate Claudia
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Heroines of comic books and literature : portrayals in popular culture / / edited by Maja Bajac-Carter, Norma Jones, and Bob Batchelor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Soggetto topico |
Women in literature
Heroines in literature Women in popular culture Women in mass media Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4422-3148-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Literature; 1 To Heck with the Village; 2 From Duckling to Swan; 3 Salem's Daughters; 4 Heroine; 5 The Bohemian Gypsy, Another Body to Sell; 6 Writing Women in War; Part II: Exotic, Foreign, Familiar, and Queer; 7 The Borderland Construction of Latin American and Latina Heroines in Contemporary Visual Media; 8 Janissary; 9 Representations of Motherhood in X-Men; 10 Negotiating Life Spaces; 11 The Mother of All Superheroes; 12 Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke?; 13 Homicidal Lesbian Terrorists to Crimson Caped Crusaders
Part III: Contemporary American Graphic Novels/Comics14 Punching Holes in the Sky; 15 Jumping Rope Naked; 16 Invisible, Tiny, and Distant; 17 Heroines Aplenty, but None My Mother Would Know; 18 Liminality and Capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman; 19 Empowerment as Transgression; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463874403321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 | ||
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Heroines of comic books and literature : portrayals in popular culture / / edited by Maja Bajac-Carter, Norma Jones, and Bob Batchelor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Soggetto topico |
Women in literature
Heroines in literature Women in popular culture Women in mass media Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-4422-3148-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Literature; 1 To Heck with the Village; 2 From Duckling to Swan; 3 Salem's Daughters; 4 Heroine; 5 The Bohemian Gypsy, Another Body to Sell; 6 Writing Women in War; Part II: Exotic, Foreign, Familiar, and Queer; 7 The Borderland Construction of Latin American and Latina Heroines in Contemporary Visual Media; 8 Janissary; 9 Representations of Motherhood in X-Men; 10 Negotiating Life Spaces; 11 The Mother of All Superheroes; 12 Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke?; 13 Homicidal Lesbian Terrorists to Crimson Caped Crusaders
Part III: Contemporary American Graphic Novels/Comics14 Punching Holes in the Sky; 15 Jumping Rope Naked; 16 Invisible, Tiny, and Distant; 17 Heroines Aplenty, but None My Mother Would Know; 18 Liminality and Capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman; 19 Empowerment as Transgression; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787825503321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 | ||
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Heroines of comic books and literature : portrayals in popular culture / / edited by Maja Bajac-Carter, Norma Jones, and Bob Batchelor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Soggetto topico |
Women in literature
Heroines in literature Women in popular culture Women in mass media Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-4422-3148-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Literature; 1 To Heck with the Village; 2 From Duckling to Swan; 3 Salem's Daughters; 4 Heroine; 5 The Bohemian Gypsy, Another Body to Sell; 6 Writing Women in War; Part II: Exotic, Foreign, Familiar, and Queer; 7 The Borderland Construction of Latin American and Latina Heroines in Contemporary Visual Media; 8 Janissary; 9 Representations of Motherhood in X-Men; 10 Negotiating Life Spaces; 11 The Mother of All Superheroes; 12 Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke?; 13 Homicidal Lesbian Terrorists to Crimson Caped Crusaders
Part III: Contemporary American Graphic Novels/Comics14 Punching Holes in the Sky; 15 Jumping Rope Naked; 16 Invisible, Tiny, and Distant; 17 Heroines Aplenty, but None My Mother Would Know; 18 Liminality and Capitalism in Spider-Woman and Wonder Woman; 19 Empowerment as Transgression; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808935803321 |
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 | ||
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