UID:
almahu_9948317668502882
Format:
vi, 207 p. :
,
ill.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Note:
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.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
