Action Chicks

Author : S. Inness
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403981240

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Action Chicks by S. Inness Pdf

Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, The Sopranos, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. Action Chicks is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the heroines we've grown to worship. What can they tell us about women in the Twent-first-century? What can they tell us about how popular culture depicts women? Do the characters escape traditional gender role expectations? Or do they adhere to sexual, racial, ethnic, and class stereotypes? The essays in Action Chicks provide fans with a new look at their favourite icons and their relationship to the popular media machine. A fascinating collection that's bound to stir up some excitement.

Author : Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1403964033

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Action Chicks by Sherrie A. Inness Pdf

Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, The Sopranos, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. Action Chicks is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the heroines we've grown to worship. What can they tell us about women in 2003? What can they tell us about how popular culture depicts women? Do the characters escape traditional gender role expectations? Or do they adhere to sexual, racial, ethnic, and class stereotypes? The essays in Action Chicks provide fans with a new look at their favorite icons and their relationship to the popular media machine. A fascinating collection that's bound to stir up some excitement.

Author : Anne Gjelsvik,Rikke Schubart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501302923

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Women of Ice and Fire by Anne Gjelsvik,Rikke Schubart Pdf

George R.R. Martin's acclaimed seven-book fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire is unique for its strong and multi-faceted female protagonists, from teen queen Daenerys, scheming Queen Cersei, child avenger Arya, knight Brienne, Red Witch Melisandre, and many more. The Game of Thrones universe challenges, exploits, yet also changes how we think of women and gender, not only in fantasy, but in Western culture in general. Divided into three sections addressing questions of adaptation from novel to television, female characters, and politics and female audience engagement within the GoT universe, the interdisciplinary and international lineup of contributors analyze gender in relation to female characters and topics such as genre, sex, violence, adaptation, as well as fan reviews. The genre of fantasy was once considered a primarily male territory with male heroes. Women of Ice and Fire shows how the GoT universe challenges, exploits, and reimagines gender and why it holds strong appeal to female readers, audiences, and online participants.

Author : Cory Barker,Chris Ryan,Myc Wiatrowski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786494644

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Mapping Smallville by Cory Barker,Chris Ryan,Myc Wiatrowski Pdf

One of the first full-length academic projects on the television series Smallville, this collection of new essays explains why the WB/CW series is important to understanding contemporary popular culture. The essays are presented in four sections covering broad categories: Clark Kent's metamorphosis to Superman and the influence of his parents and the home; the role of the series' noteworthy female characters; the series' representations of the Other, explorations of identity, and the ways in which characters speak to Clark's own struggles; and audience reception of the series and its position within the Superman narrative universe.

Author : Goran Đurđević,Suzana Marjanić
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781804550434

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Ecofeminism on the Edge by Goran Đurđević,Suzana Marjanić Pdf

With a special focus on education and underrepresented geographical locations, this book is an inclusive collection of theories, discourses, art, identities, and practices related to this discipline.

Author : Sue Thornham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839021169

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What If I Had Been the Hero? by Sue Thornham Pdf

Sue Thornham's study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood, and from the 1970s to the present day, discussing directors including Sally Potter, Jane Campion, Julie Dash, Patricia Rozema and Lynne Ramsay.

Author : Stephen T. Garnett,G Barry Baker
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781486311927

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The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020 by Stephen T. Garnett,G Barry Baker Pdf

The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020 is the most comprehensive review of the status of Australia's avifauna ever attempted. The latest in a series of action plans for Australian birds that have been produced every decade since 1992, it is also the largest. The accounts in this plan have been authored by more than 300 of the most knowledgeable bird experts in the country, and feature far more detail than any of the earlier plans. This volume also includes accounts of over 60 taxa that are no longer considered threatened, mainly thanks to sustained conservation action over many decades. This extensive book covers key themes that have emerged in the last decade, including the increasing impact of climate change as a threatening process, most obviously in Queensland's tropical rainforests where many birds are being pushed up the mountains. However, the effects are also indirect, as happened in the catastrophic fires of 2019/20. Many of the newly listed birds are subspecies confined to Kangaroo Island, where fire destroyed over half the population. But there are good news stories too, especially on islands where there have been spectacular successes with predator control. Such uplifting results demonstrate that when action plans are followed by action on the ground, threatened species can indeed be recovered and threats alleviated.

Author : Robin S. Rosenberg, PhD,Peter MacFarland Coogan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199795277

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What is a Superhero? by Robin S. Rosenberg, PhD,Peter MacFarland Coogan Pdf

What is a superhero? Everyone knows, right? And yet everyone seems to have a different answer. In this innovative collection of essays, renowned psychologist Robin Rosenberg and comics scholar Peter Coogan explore this question from a variety of viewpoints. With essays from scholars and commentaries by the writers and creators themselves, What is a Superhero? is the first volume to provide a true synthesis and reflection of the state of superheroes in our society today.

Author : Jennifer K. Stuller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857713582

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Ink-stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors by Jennifer K. Stuller Pdf

From "Wonder Woman" to Buffy Summers, Emma Peel to Sydney Bristow, "Charlie's Angels" to "The Powerpuff Girls", Superwomen are more than just love interests or sidekicks who stand by their Supermen. In her new book, Stuller shows how the female hero in modern mythology has broken through the boy's club barrier of tradition and reveals the pivotal role of high-heeled crime fighters in popular culture.Featuring spies and sexuality, daddy's girls and super-mothers, this is a comprehensive, engaging and thought-provoking guide to female detectives, meta-humans and action heroines, as well as their creators, directors, performers, and consumers. The book also includes a glossary of modern mythic women, from Aeon to Zoe, as well as a foreword by acclaimed cultural commentator Roz Kaveney, author of "Superheroes! Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films" (published by I.B. Tauris, April 2008).

Author : Virginia Luzón-Aguado
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350152434

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Harrison Ford by Virginia Luzón-Aguado Pdf

Harrison Ford is known for such iconic roles as Han Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard - but his career of 50 years (and counting) encompasses a plethora of other thought-provoking roles. His off-screen persona has been no less intriguing. Covering a wide timespan, this book assesses Harrison Ford as 'star' from the difficult Hollywood studio years where he began, his blockbusters of the 1980s, through to the impact of ageist culture on his artistry of recent years. The author argues that Ford has generally been seen as a potent, irresistible combination of tradition and modernity. He is an actor who both reflects and utilises changing ideas about American masculinity in the context of Hollywood film production: particular male types are revealed as much in his trademark trustworthy hero act as in his more fallible, less conservative and therefore commercially riskier characters. Luzon Aguado explores these particular star identities and every fluctuation in between. She gives due attention to his much-neglected acting abilities while examining the crucial interplay between star persona and the constraints and conventions of genre. Going beyond standard accounts of Ford's production and pinpointing overlooked aspects of his work, and the creation of the star through cultural artefacts like magazine interviews and advertising campaigns, this book reveals the depth and dimensions of the enduring American screen legend that is Harrison Ford.

Author : Allison P. Palumbo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476677392

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Love and the Fighting Female by Allison P. Palumbo Pdf

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.

Author : Cece Meng
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780618824151

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Tough Chicks by Cece Meng Pdf

Three independent chicks who dare to be different are reprimanded by the other barnyard residents for not being quiet and docile, until the smart, fearless trio takes on a runaway tractor.

Author : Tim Rayborn,Abigail Keyes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476666846

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Jessica Jones, Scarred Superhero by Tim Rayborn,Abigail Keyes Pdf

Jessica Jones barged onto our screens in November 2015, courtesy of Marvel and Netflix, presenting a hard-drinking protagonist who wrestles with her own inner (and outer) demons. Gaining enhanced abilities as a teenager, she eschews the "super costume" and is far more concerned with the problems of daily life. But when Jessica falls under the control of a villain, her life changes forever. Based on the comic book Alias, the show won a large following and critical acclaim for its unflinching look at subjects like abuse, trauma, PTSD, rape culture, alcoholism, drug addiction, victims' plight and family conflicts. This collection of new essays offers insight into the show's complex themes and story lines.

Author : Lara Karaian,Lisa Bryn Rundle,Allyson Mitchell
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9781894549066

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Turbo Chicks by Lara Karaian,Lisa Bryn Rundle,Allyson Mitchell Pdf

This is a collection of prose, poetry, theoretical dialogue and more, with contributions by women from all sexual orientations, ages and backgrounds. The texts explore the meaning of feminism to different women.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UCAL:B3585506

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South Western Reporter. Second Series by Anonim Pdf