Heroines of film and television : portrayals in popular culture /
Heroines of film and television : portrayals in popular culture /
edited by Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter, and Bob Batchelor.
- x, 256 pages ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The erotic heroine and the politics of gender at work: a feminist reading of Mad Men's Joan Harris / Burn one down: Nancy Botwin as (post)feminist (anti)heroine / Choosing her "fae"te: subversive sexuality and Lost Girl's Re/evolutionary female hero / Torture, rape, action heroines, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / The maternal hero in Tarantino's Kill Bill / We've seen this deadly web before: repackaging the femme fatale and representing the superhero(ine) as neo-noir "black widow" in Sin City / Romance, comedy, conspiracy: the paranoid heroine in contemporary romantic comedy / Conflicted hybridity: negotiating the warrior princess archetype in Willow / The woman who fell from the sky: Cowboys and Aliens' hybrid heroine / Her story, too: Final Fantasy X, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and the feminist hero's journey / Bollywood marriages: portrayals of matrimony in Hindi popular cinema / The enduring woman: race, revenge, and self-determination in Chloe, Love Is Calling You / The dark, twisted magical girls: Shojo heroines in Puella Magi Madoka Magica / Women on the quarterdeck: the female captain as adventure hero, 1994-2009 / The girl who lived: reading Harry Potter as a sacrificial and loving heroine / "It's about power and it's about women": gender and the political economy of superheroes in Wonder Woman and Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Suzy D'Enbeau and Patrice M. Buzzanell -- Katie Snyder -- Jennifer K. Stuller -- Jeffrey A. Brown -- Maura Grady -- Ryan Castillo and Katie Gibson -- Pedro Ponce -- Cassandra Bausman -- Cynthia J. Miller -- Catherine Bailey Kyle -- Rekha Sharma and Carol A. Savery -- Robin R. Means Coleman -- Lien Fan Shen -- A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Norma Jones -- Carolyn Cocca.
"Award-winning authors from a variety from a variety of disciplines examine the changing roles of heroic women across time. In this volume, editors Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter, and Bob Batchelor have assembled a collection of essays that broaden our understanding of how heroines are portrayed across media, offering readers new ways to understand, perceive, and think about women. Contributors bring fresh readings to popular films and television shows such as 'The Girl with the Drago Tattoo', 'Kill Bill', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Weeds', 'Mad Men', and 'Star Trek'.
9781442231498 1442231491 1442231505 9781442231504 9781442275645 1442275642
2013040492
GBB421172 bnb
Women in motion pictures.
Women on television.
Heroines in motion pictures.
Heroines on television.
Heroines in motion pictures.
Heroines on television.
Women in motion pictures.
Women on television.
Film.
Fernsehfilm.
Heldin.
Frau.
Geschlechterrolle.
Kvinnor i Tv.
PN1995.9.W6 / H465 2014
791.43/6522
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The erotic heroine and the politics of gender at work: a feminist reading of Mad Men's Joan Harris / Burn one down: Nancy Botwin as (post)feminist (anti)heroine / Choosing her "fae"te: subversive sexuality and Lost Girl's Re/evolutionary female hero / Torture, rape, action heroines, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / The maternal hero in Tarantino's Kill Bill / We've seen this deadly web before: repackaging the femme fatale and representing the superhero(ine) as neo-noir "black widow" in Sin City / Romance, comedy, conspiracy: the paranoid heroine in contemporary romantic comedy / Conflicted hybridity: negotiating the warrior princess archetype in Willow / The woman who fell from the sky: Cowboys and Aliens' hybrid heroine / Her story, too: Final Fantasy X, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and the feminist hero's journey / Bollywood marriages: portrayals of matrimony in Hindi popular cinema / The enduring woman: race, revenge, and self-determination in Chloe, Love Is Calling You / The dark, twisted magical girls: Shojo heroines in Puella Magi Madoka Magica / Women on the quarterdeck: the female captain as adventure hero, 1994-2009 / The girl who lived: reading Harry Potter as a sacrificial and loving heroine / "It's about power and it's about women": gender and the political economy of superheroes in Wonder Woman and Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Suzy D'Enbeau and Patrice M. Buzzanell -- Katie Snyder -- Jennifer K. Stuller -- Jeffrey A. Brown -- Maura Grady -- Ryan Castillo and Katie Gibson -- Pedro Ponce -- Cassandra Bausman -- Cynthia J. Miller -- Catherine Bailey Kyle -- Rekha Sharma and Carol A. Savery -- Robin R. Means Coleman -- Lien Fan Shen -- A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Norma Jones -- Carolyn Cocca.
"Award-winning authors from a variety from a variety of disciplines examine the changing roles of heroic women across time. In this volume, editors Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter, and Bob Batchelor have assembled a collection of essays that broaden our understanding of how heroines are portrayed across media, offering readers new ways to understand, perceive, and think about women. Contributors bring fresh readings to popular films and television shows such as 'The Girl with the Drago Tattoo', 'Kill Bill', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Weeds', 'Mad Men', and 'Star Trek'.
9781442231498 1442231491 1442231505 9781442231504 9781442275645 1442275642
2013040492
GBB421172 bnb
Women in motion pictures.
Women on television.
Heroines in motion pictures.
Heroines on television.
Heroines in motion pictures.
Heroines on television.
Women in motion pictures.
Women on television.
Film.
Fernsehfilm.
Heldin.
Frau.
Geschlechterrolle.
Kvinnor i Tv.
PN1995.9.W6 / H465 2014
791.43/6522