Women willing to fight the fighting woman in film /
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Newcastle, U.K. :
Cambridge Scholars,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Why women willing to fight? An introduction / Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick
- The neomyth in film : the woman warrior from Joan of Arc to Ellen Ripley / Barbara Creed
- Just a woman among the cyborgs : Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: judgement day / Catherine Summerhayes
- Past, present, future : finding treasure in the lives of Lara Croft / Ursula Frederick
- Violence, duty and choice : the military woman in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Yvonne Tasker
- Million dollar baby : the making and unmaking of the female boxer's body / Silke Andris
- Fighting to be seen : looking for women in the West, from The searchers to The missing / Martin Flanagan
- Belles with attitude : genealogies of the new Hollywood wisecracking action heroine / Polona Petek
- Zhang Ziyi, "Martial Arthouse" and the transnational Nuxia / Leon Hunt
- Superheroine : women as martial artists in early twenty-first century cinema / Catherine Driscoll.