Women willing to fight [electronic resource] : the fighting woman in film / edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick.
Publication details: Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars, 2007.Description: vi, 207 p. : illISBN:- 1847181422
- 9781847181428
- 9781443804769 (e-book)
- 791.43082 22
- PN1995.9.W6 W675 2007eb
eBooks
Filmography: p. [189]-196.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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