Ebook: Heroines of film and television: portrayals in popular culture
Author: Bajac-Carter Maja, Batchelor Bob, Jones Norma
- Tags: Heroines in motion pictures, Heroines on television, Women in motion pictures, Women on television
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- City: Lanham;Maryland
- Edition: First paperback edition
- Language: English
- epub
As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of acutely weak or overly strong women. Although heroines continue to represent the traditional roles of mothers, goddesses, warriors, whores, witches, and priestesses, these women are no longer just damsels in distress or violent warriors. In Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture, award-winning authors from a variety of disciplines examine the changing roles of heroic women across time. In this volume, editors Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter, and Bob Batchelor have assembled a collection of essays that broaden our understanding of how heroines are portrayed across media, offering readers new ways to understand, perceive, and think about women. Contributors bring fresh readings to popular films and television shows such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kill Bill, Buffy the Vampire...
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