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Heroines of Film and Television
Portrayals in Popular Culture
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2014
Summary
As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of acutely weak or overly strong women. Although heroines continue to represent the traditional roles of mothers, goddesses, warriors, whores, witches, and priestesses, these women are no longer just damsels in distress or violent warriors.
In Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture,award-winning authors 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 Dragon Tattoo, Kill Bill, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Weeds, Mad Men, and Star Trek.
The representations and interpretations of these heroines are important reflections of popular culture that simultaneously empower and constrain real life women. These essays help readers gain a more complete understanding of female heroes, especially as related to race, gender, power, and culture. A companion volume to Heroines of Comic Books and Literature, this collection will appeal to academics and broader audiences that are interested in women in popular culture.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-3149-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-3150-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
256
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 The Erotic Heroine and the Politics of Gender at Work No access
2 Burn One Down No access
3 Choosing Her “Fae”te No access
4 Torture, Rape, Action Heroines, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo No access
5 The Maternal Hero in Tarantino’s Kill Bill No access
6 We’ve Seen This Deadly Web Before No access
7 Romance, Comedy, Conspiracy No access
8 Conflicted Hybridity No access
9 The Woman Who Fell from the Sky No access
10 Her Story, Too No access
11 Bollywood Marriages No access
12 The Enduring Woman No access
13 The Dark, Twisted Magical Girls No access
14 Women on the Quarterdeck No access
15 The Girl Who Lived No access
16 “It’s about Power and It’s about Women” No access
Index No access Pages 237 - 248
About the Editors No access Pages 249 - 250
About the Contributors No access Pages 251 - 256
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