Dangerous curves : action heroines, gender, fetishism, and popular culture / Jeffrey A. Brown.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Jeffrey A., 1966-
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
Subjects:
Women heroes in motion pictures.
Heroines in literature.
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Women in popular culture.
Physical Description:viii, 269 pages
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.