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Download or read book Action Chicks written by S. Inness and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-01-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, The Sopranos, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. Action Chicks is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the heroines we've grown to worship. What can they tell us about women in the Twent-first-century? What can they tell us about how popular culture depicts women? Do the characters escape traditional gender role expectations? Or do they adhere to sexual, racial, ethnic, and class stereotypes? The essays in Action Chicks provide fans with a new look at their favourite icons and their relationship to the popular media machine. A fascinating collection that's bound to stir up some excitement.
Book Synopsis Action Chicks by : Sherrie A. Inness
Download or read book Action Chicks written by Sherrie A. Inness and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2004-01-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, The Sopranos, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. Action Chicks is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the heroines we've grown to worship. What can they tell us about women in 2003? What can they tell us about how popular culture depicts women? Do the characters escape traditional gender role expectations? Or do they adhere to sexual, racial, ethnic, and class stereotypes? The essays in Action Chicks provide fans with a new look at their favorite icons and their relationship to the popular media machine. A fascinating collection that's bound to stir up some excitement.
Download or read book Tough Chicks written by Cece Meng and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three independent chicks who dare to be different are reprimanded by the other barnyard residents for not being quiet and docile, until the smart, fearless trio takes on a runaway tractor.
Book Synopsis Action TV: Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks by : Anna Gough-Yates
Download or read book Action TV: Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks written by Anna Gough-Yates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From re-runs of 'TV classics' like The Avengers or Starsky and Hutch, to soundtracks, club nights and film remakes such as Mission Impossible II, the action series is enjoying a popular revival. Yet little attention has been paid to the history, nature and enduring appeal of the action series, and its place in popular culture, past and present. Action TV traces the development of the action series from its genesis in the 1950s. From The Saint to Knigh t Rider, contributors explore the key shows which defined the genre, addressing issues of audiences and consumption, gender and sexuality, fashion and popular culture. They examine the institutional and cultural factors influencing the action series, and relate shifts in the genre to other forms of popular culture including film, pop music, fashion and popular literature. Chapters include: * Of leather suits and kinky boots: The Avengers, style and popular culture * 'Who loves ya, baby?': Kojak, action and the great society *'A lone crusader in a dangerous world': heroics of science and technology in Knight Rider * Angels in chains? feminism, femininity and consumer culture in Charlie's Angels * 'Who's the cat that won't cop out?' Black masculinity in American action shows of the sixties and seventies
Book Synopsis Mean Chicks, Cliques, and Dirty Tricks by : Erika V Shearin Karres
Download or read book Mean Chicks, Cliques, and Dirty Tricks written by Erika V Shearin Karres and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cyber-bullying can be worse than being picked on in school. Like when a girl tries real hard to make me feel bad about myself. Doesn't she know how much that hurts?" —Tanya, 13 "I don't know any girls that don't hurt other girls in some ways. Why? Because life is tough for girls." —Angela, 14 "Some girls try to intimidate and threaten you on Facebook. It's their way to get attention. I just don't want to play their game." —Jennifer, 15 Cliques. Snobs. Facebook stalkers. Twitter twits. Gossip. MySpace brats. Name-calling and showing off. Let's face it—the girl world is tough! Mean Chicks, Cliques, and Dirty Tricks, 2nd Edition is your ultimate survival guide to backstabbers and bullies both in school and online. Girl guru Dr. Erika talked to more than 1,000 teen girls just like you to help you understand what makes mean chicks tick. She features smart strategies and powerful tools, such as: FYI: The real lowdown on the different types of mean chick behavior—what causes it and what you can do Awesome quizzes: Designed to help you figure out where you stand with the mean chicks and how you can make real changes Fab fixes: Hey, even a cool chick like you can feel down every now and then—these are quick pick-me-ups for any bad day Cool quotes: Wit and wisdom from women who fought their battles years ago—and came out on top Real Answers: Restore kindness and courtesy at your school and online Loaded with helpful advice and true stories from girls who fought back against teasing and cyberbulling, Mean Chicks is the only book you need to feel strong, confident, and triumphant.
Book Synopsis Women of Ice and Fire by : Anne Gjelsvik
Download or read book Women of Ice and Fire written by Anne Gjelsvik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George R.R. Martin's acclaimed seven-book fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire is unique for its strong and multi-faceted female protagonists, from teen queen Daenerys, scheming Queen Cersei, child avenger Arya, knight Brienne, Red Witch Melisandre, and many more. The Game of Thrones universe challenges, exploits, yet also changes how we think of women and gender, not only in fantasy, but in Western culture in general. Divided into three sections addressing questions of adaptation from novel to television, female characters, and politics and female audience engagement within the GoT universe, the interdisciplinary and international lineup of contributors analyze gender in relation to female characters and topics such as genre, sex, violence, adaptation, as well as fan reviews. The genre of fantasy was once considered a primarily male territory with male heroes. Women of Ice and Fire shows how the GoT universe challenges, exploits, and reimagines gender and why it holds strong appeal to female readers, audiences, and online participants.
Download or read book Mapping Smallville written by Cory Barker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first full-length academic projects on the television series Smallville, this collection of new essays explains why the WB/CW series is important to understanding contemporary popular culture. The essays are presented in four sections covering broad categories: Clark Kent's metamorphosis to Superman and the influence of his parents and the home; the role of the series' noteworthy female characters; the series' representations of the Other, explorations of identity, and the ways in which characters speak to Clark's own struggles; and audience reception of the series and its position within the Superman narrative universe.
Book Synopsis Chicks Rule! by : Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Download or read book Chicks Rule! written by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All in step with wing in wing . . . Chicks can conquer anything! Nerdy Chick has been waiting all day for the Rocket Club meeting. But when she gets there, she finds a disturbing sign tacked to the door: “NO CHICKS ALLOWED!!!” Puzzled, then baffled, then just plain mad, Nerdy Chick sets out to change the rules. Along the way, she meets other chicks who are just like her: passionate and determined. From Soccer Chick to Science Chick and Wordy Chick to Yoga Chick, these chicks aren’t willing to take “NO” for an answer. They rally together, march to the barn at the center of town, and—when they hear “NO” once again—chart their own path forward (or, rather, up, up, and away!). A celebration of girl power and community action, Chicks Rule! is the playful, diverse, victorious anthem chicks everywhere will love.
Download or read book Turbo Chicks written by Lara Karaian and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of prose, poetry, theoretical dialogue and more, with contributions by women from all sexual orientations, ages and backgrounds. The texts explore the meaning of feminism to different women.
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Book Synopsis Research Grants Index by : National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Research Grants
Download or read book Research Grants Index written by National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Research Grants and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Ink-stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors by : Jennifer K. Stuller
Download or read book Ink-stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors written by Jennifer K. Stuller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "Wonder Woman" to Buffy Summers, Emma Peel to Sydney Bristow, "Charlie's Angels" to "The Powerpuff Girls", Superwomen are more than just love interests or sidekicks who stand by their Supermen. In her new book, Stuller shows how the female hero in modern mythology has broken through the boy's club barrier of tradition and reveals the pivotal role of high-heeled crime fighters in popular culture.Featuring spies and sexuality, daddy's girls and super-mothers, this is a comprehensive, engaging and thought-provoking guide to female detectives, meta-humans and action heroines, as well as their creators, directors, performers, and consumers. The book also includes a glossary of modern mythic women, from Aeon to Zoe, as well as a foreword by acclaimed cultural commentator Roz Kaveney, author of "Superheroes! Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films" (published by I.B. Tauris, April 2008).
Book Synopsis What If I Had Been the Hero? by : Sue Thornham
Download or read book What If I Had Been the Hero? written by Sue Thornham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sue Thornham's study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood, and from the 1970s to the present day, discussing directors including Sally Potter, Jane Campion, Julie Dash, Patricia Rozema and Lynne Ramsay.
Book Synopsis Ecofeminism on the Edge by : Goran Đurđević
Download or read book Ecofeminism on the Edge written by Goran Đurđević and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a special focus on education and underrepresented geographical locations, this book is an inclusive collection of theories, discourses, art, identities, and practices related to this discipline.
Book Synopsis Love and the Fighting Female by : Allison P. Palumbo
Download or read book Love and the Fighting Female written by Allison P. Palumbo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fighting female archetype--a self-reliant woman of great physical prowess--has become increasingly common in action films and on television. However, the progressive female identities of these narratives cannot always resist the persistent and problematic framing of male-female relationships as a battle of the sexes or other source of antagonism. Combining cultural analysis with close readings of key popular American film and television texts since the 1980s, this study argues that certain fighting female themes question regressive conventions in male-female relationships. Those themes reveal potentially progressive ideologies regarding female agency in mass culture that reassure audiences of the desirability of empowered women while also imagining egalitarian intimacies that further empower women. Overall, the fighting female narratives addressed here afford contradictory viewing pleasures that reveal both new expectations for and remaining anxieties about the "strong, independent woman" ideal that emerged in American popular culture post-feminism.
Book Synopsis Harrison Ford by : Virginia Luzón-Aguado
Download or read book Harrison Ford written by Virginia Luzón-Aguado and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harrison Ford is known for such iconic roles as Han Solo, Indiana Jones and Rick Deckard - but his career of 50 years (and counting) encompasses a plethora of other thought-provoking roles. His off-screen persona has been no less intriguing. Covering a wide timespan, this book assesses Harrison Ford as 'star' from the difficult Hollywood studio years where he began, his blockbusters of the 1980s, through to the impact of ageist culture on his artistry of recent years. The author argues that Ford has generally been seen as a potent, irresistible combination of tradition and modernity. He is an actor who both reflects and utilises changing ideas about American masculinity in the context of Hollywood film production: particular male types are revealed as much in his trademark trustworthy hero act as in his more fallible, less conservative and therefore commercially riskier characters. Luzon Aguado explores these particular star identities and every fluctuation in between. She gives due attention to his much-neglected acting abilities while examining the crucial interplay between star persona and the constraints and conventions of genre. Going beyond standard accounts of Ford's production and pinpointing overlooked aspects of his work, and the creation of the star through cultural artefacts like magazine interviews and advertising campaigns, this book reveals the depth and dimensions of the enduring American screen legend that is Harrison Ford.
Book Synopsis What is a Superhero? by : Robin S. Rosenberg, PhD
Download or read book What is a Superhero? written by Robin S. Rosenberg, PhD and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a superhero? Everyone knows, right? And yet everyone seems to have a different answer. In this innovative collection of essays, renowned psychologist Robin Rosenberg and comics scholar Peter Coogan explore this question from a variety of viewpoints. With essays from scholars and commentaries by the writers and creators themselves, What is a Superhero? is the first volume to provide a true synthesis and reflection of the state of superheroes in our society today.
