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Beyond Bombshells
Jeffrey A. Brown
其他書名
The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture
出版
Univ. Press of Mississippi
, 2015-09-09
主題
Social Science / Popular Culture
Social Science / Gender Studies
Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
ISBN
1496803205
9781496803207
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=c3icCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Beyond Bombshells
analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they have ever been. Their spectacular presence represents shifting ideas about female agency, power, and sexuality.
Beyond Bombshells
explores how action heroines reveal and reconfigure perceptions about how and why women are capable of physically dominating roles in modern fiction, indicating the various strategies used to contain and/or exploit female violence.
Focusing on a range of successful and controversial recent heroines in the mass media, including Katniss Everdeen from
The Hunger Games
books and movies, Lisbeth Salander from
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
novels and films, and Hit-Girl from the
Kick-Ass
movies and comic books, Jeffrey A. Brown argues that the role of action heroine reveals evolving beliefs about femininity. While women in action roles are still heavily sexualized and objectified, they also challenge preconceived myths about normal or culturally appropriate gender behavior. The ascribed sexuality of modern heroines remains Brown's consistent theme, particularly how objectification intersects with issues of racial stereotyping, romantic fantasies, images of violent adolescent and preadolescent girls, and neoliberal feminist revolutionary parables.
Individual chapters study the gendered dynamics of torture in action films, the role of women in partnerships with male colleagues, young women as well as revolutionary leaders in dystopic societies, adolescent sexuality and romance in action narratives, the historical import of nonwhite heroines, and how modern African American, Asian, and Latina heroines both challenge and are restricted by longstanding racial stereotypes.