Women willing to fight : the fighting woman in film / edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andris, Silke.

Frederick, Ursula.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in motion pictures.

Action and adventure films--History and criticism.

Action and adventure films.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ...

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Filmography: p. [189]-196.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

ISBN:

1-282-03612-2

9786612036125

1-4438-0476-2

OCLC:

815768898