Women Willing to Fight : The Fighting Woman in Film. Silke Andris
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Author: Silke Andris
Page Count: 217 pages
Published Date: 01 Apr 2007
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication Country: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781847181428
File Name: Women.Willing.to.Fight.The.Fighting.Woman.in.Film.pdf
Download Link: Women Willing to Fight The Fighting Woman in Film
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Women Willing to Fight is a collection of essays that explores the presence of the fighting woman in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Drawn from a variety of genres, the authors examine the changing role, image and position of this figure in film over recent decades. The increasing dominance of this character and her repositioning as a protagonist reinvigorates discussion concerning the dynamics of film narrative and spectacle. Each contribution takes as its focus a central character from the Hollywood blockbuster era, examining in detail the motivations and implications of the fighting female. In doing so the collection raises significant questions about the place of the fighting woman in contemporary media and the relationships she forges on and off-screen. With a strong appreciation of the mixed messages inherent in images of fighting women, Women Willing to Fight seeks to draw attention to the embodied forms - physical, intellectual and emotional - through which female fighters are represented. The anthology places particular emphasis on the emergence of the physically empowered woman, a character for whom the body has become a weapon and a target.
While early cinematic representations allowed women to voice their fury and frustration, today's female fighters not only 'speak up' but 'muscle up'. Putting aside the supernatural powers of many action heroines, this volume focuses on the kinds of fighting skills, abilities and desires that are engendered in characterisations of mortal women. To this end the volume implicitly addresses complex and cross-cultural notions of 'extra-ordinary' power. By examining the embodied arsenal that these characters possess and develop - through training, conditioning, and life experience - it considers the representation of motivation and metamorphoses into 'the fighting woman': how a woman fights holds implicit meaning and inevitably urges us to consider why and what she is fighting for.
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