Women willing to fight : the fighting woman in film /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Andris, Silke, Frederick, Ursula
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2007.
Subjects:	Women in motion pictures. Women heroes. Action and adventure films > History and criticism. Martial arts films > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

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.