TY  - GEN
T1  - Love and the fighting female : a critical study of onscreen depictions
A1  - Palumbo, Allison P., 1976-
LA  - English
PP  - Jefferson
PB  - McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1183790020
AB  - "The fighting female archetype-a self-reliant woman of great physical prowess-has become increasingly common in action films and on television. However, the progressive female identities of these narratives cannot always resist the persistent and problematic framing of male-female relationships as a battle of the sexes or other source of antagonism. Combining cultural analysis with close readings of key popular American film and television texts since the 1980s, this study argues that certain fighting female themes question regressive conventions in male-female relationships. Those themes reveal potentially progressive ideologies regarding female agency in mass culture that reassure audiences of the desirability of empowered women while also imagining egalitarian intimacies that further empower women. Overall, the fighting female narratives addressed here afford contradictory viewing pleasures that reveal both new expectations for and remaining anxieties about the "strong, independent woman" ideal that emerged in American popular culture post-feminism."--Provided by publisher--
CN  - PN1995.9.W6 P35 2020
SN  - 9781476639772
SN  - 1476639779
SN  - 9781476677392
SN  - 1476677395
KW  - Women heroes in motion pictures.
KW  - Women heroes on television.
KW  - Motion pictures : United States : History.
KW  - Television programs : United States : History.
KW  - Héroïnes au cinéma.
KW  - Héroïnes à la télévision.
KW  - Cinéma : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Émissions télévisées : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Television programs
KW  - Women heroes in motion pictures
KW  - Women heroes on television
KW  - United States
KW  - History
ER  -