Dangerous curves : action heroines, gender, fetishism, and popular culture /
Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the conflicted meanings associated with the figure of the action heroine as she has evolved in various media forms since the late 1980s. Jeffrey A. Brown discusses this immensely popular character type as an example...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2011]
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| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=355403 |
Taula de continguts:
- Introduction : "where all women wear spandex and know Kung Fu"
- Gender and the action heroine : hardbodies and the point of no return
- Gender, sexuality, and toughness : the bad girls of action film and comic books
- Alias, fetishism, and Pygmalion fantasies
- "Play with me" : sexy cyborgs, game girls, and digital babes
- If looks could kill : power, revenge, and stripper movies
- "She can do anything!" : the action heroine and the modern (post-feminist) girl
- "Exotic beauties" : ethnicity and comic book superheroines
- Kinky vampires and action heroines
- When the action heroine looks
- Conclusion : wondering about Wonder Woman : action heroines as multi-fetish.