Dangerous curves : action heroines, gender, fetishism, and popular culture / Jeffrey A. Brown.
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| Main Library | P94.5W65B8 | 4 WEEK | IN LIBRARY |
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| Imprint |
Jackson, Mississippi University Press of Mississippi, [2011]
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| Copyright Date |
©2011
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| Description |
viii, 269 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
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| Content type |
text
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| Media type |
unmediated
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| Carrier type |
volume
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents |
1. Gender and the action heroine: hardbodies and the point of no return -- 2. Gender, sexuality, and toughness : the bad girls of action films and comic books -- 3. Alias, fetishism, and pygmalion fantasies -- 4. "Play with me" : sexy cyborgs, game girls, and digital babes -- 5. If looks could kill : power, revenge, and stripper movies -- 6. "She can do anything!" : the action heroine and the modern (post-feminist) girl -- 7. "Exotic beauties" : ethnicity and comic book superheroines -- 8. Kinky vampires and action heroines -- 9. When the action heroine looks.
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| ISBN |
9781617039409 cloth: alk. paper
1617039403 cloth: alk. paper
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