Dangerous curves : action heroines, gender, fetishism, and popular culture /
Brown, Jeffrey A., 1966-
Dangerous curves : action heroines, gender, fetishism, and popular culture / Jeffrey A. Brown. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011. - viii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 : wondering about Wonder Woman : action heroines as multi-fetish.
9781604737141 160473714X 9781617039409 9781604737158 1604737158
2010029696
Women heroes in motion pictures.
Heroines in literature.
Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism.
Women in popular culture.
PN1995.9.W6 / B76 2011
305.4
Dangerous curves : action heroines, gender, fetishism, and popular culture / Jeffrey A. Brown. - Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011. - viii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 : wondering about Wonder Woman : action heroines as multi-fetish.
9781604737141 160473714X 9781617039409 9781604737158 1604737158
2010029696
Women heroes in motion pictures.
Heroines in literature.
Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism.
Women in popular culture.
PN1995.9.W6 / B76 2011
305.4