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Modern Amazons

Author : Dominique Mainon
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879103279
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Modern Amazons written by Dominique Mainon and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen documents the public's seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on television. The book examines the cautious beginnings of new roles for women in the late fifties, the rapid development of female action leads during the burgeoning second-wave feminist movement in the late sixties and seventies, and the present-day onslaught of female action characters now leaping from page to screen. The book itself is organized into chapters that group women warriors into sub-genres, e.g., classic Amazons like Xena Warrior Princess and the women of the Conan films; superheroes and their archenemies such as Wonder Woman, Batgirl, and Catwoman; revenge films such as the Kill Bill movies; Sexploitation and Blaxploitation films such as Coffy and the Ilsa trilogy; Hong Kong cinema and warriors like Angela Mao, Cynthia Rothrock, and Zhang Ziyi; sci-fi warriors from Star Trek , Blade Runner , and Star Wars ; supersleuths and spies like the Avengers and Charlie's Angels; and gothic warriors such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Kate Beckinsale in Underworld and Van Helsing . In addition, the book is lavishly illustrated with over 400 photos of these popular-culture icons in action, interesting articles and sidebars about themes, trends, weapons, style, and trivia, as well as a complete filmography of more than 150 titles.

The Modern Amazons

Author : James Ursini
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0879106913
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Amazons written by James Ursini and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÊThe Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on ScreenÊ documents the public's seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on television. The book examines the cautious beginnings of new roles for women in the late fifties the rapid development of female action leads during the burgeoning second-wave feminist movement in the late sixties and seventies and the present-day onslaught of female action characters now leaping from page to screen. The book itself is organized into chapters that group women warriors into sub-genres e.g. classic Amazons like Xena Warrior Princess and the women of the ÊConanÊ films; superheroes and their archenemies such as Wonder Woman Batgirl and Catwoman; revenge films such as the ÊKill BillÊ movies; Sexploitation and Blaxploitation films such as ÊCoffyÊ and the ÊIlsaÊ trilogy; Hong Kong cinema and warriors like Angela Mao Cynthia Rothrock and Zhang Ziyi; sci-fi warriors from ÊStar TrekÊ ÊBlade RunnerÊ and ÊStar WarsÊ; supersleuths and spies like the Avengers and Charlie's Angels; and gothic warriors such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Kate Beckinsale in ÊUnderworldÊ and ÊVan HelsingÊ. In addition the book is lavishly illustrated with over 400 photos of these popular-culture icons in action interesting articles and sidebars about themes trends weapons style and trivia as well as a complete filmography of more than 150 titles.

The Amazons in Antiquity and Modern Times

Author : Guy Cadogan Rothery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazons in Antiquity and Modern Times written by Guy Cadogan Rothery and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of American Folklore

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Encyclopedia of Amazons

Author : Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453293647
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Amazons written by Jessica Amanda Salmonson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “excellent” A-to-Z reference of female fighters in history, myth, and literature—from goddesses to gladiators to guerrilla warriors (Library Journal). This is an astounding collection of female fighters, from heads of state and goddesses to pirates and gladiators. Each entry is drawn from historical, fictional, or mythical narratives of many eras and lands. With over one thousand entries detailing the lives and influence of these heroic female figures in battle, politics, and daily life, Salmonson provides a unique chronicle of female fortitude, focusing not just on physical strength but on the courage to fight against patriarchal structures and redefine women’s roles during time periods when doing so was nearly impossible. The use of historical information and fictional traditions from Japan, Europe, Asia, and Africa gives this work a cross-cultural perspective that contextualizes the image of these unconventional depictions of might, valor, and greatness.

Brazil, the Amazons and the Coast

Author : Herbert Huntington Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Brazil, the Amazons and the Coast written by Herbert Huntington Smith and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Amazon

Author : Carel Vosmaer
Publisher : New York : W. S. Gottsberger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Amazon written by Carel Vosmaer and published by New York : W. S. Gottsberger. This book was released on 1884 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Early Amazons

Author : Josine Blok
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004301437
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Early Amazons written by Josine Blok and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth, situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history. The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history, myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics. The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece, offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling, it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary presence of the Amazons.

Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World

Author : John Man
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 168177707X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World written by John Man and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply researched and sweeping history that redefines our understanding of the Amazons and their culture, tracking the ancient legend into the modern world and examining its significance today. Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their male children to purify their ranks. For centuries people believed in their existence and attempted to trace their origins. Artists and poets celebrated their battles and wrote of Amazonia. Spanish explorers, carrying these tales to South America, thought they lived in the forests of the world’s greatest river, and named it after them. In the absence of evidence, we eventually reasoned away their existence, concluding that these powerful, sexually liberated female soldiers must have been the fantastical invention of Greek myth and storytelling. Until now. Following decades of new research and a series of groundbreaking archeological discoveries, we now know these powerful warrior queens did indeed exist. In Searching for the Amazons, John Man travels to the grasslands of Central Asia—from the edge of the ancient Greek world to the borderlands of China—to discover the truth about the truth about these women whose legend has resonated over the centuries.

Modern Amazons

Author : Bill Dobbins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784887831315
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Modern Amazons written by Bill Dobbins and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Negotiating Past and Present

Author : David Thatcher Gies
Publisher : Rookwood Press
ISBN 13 : 9781886365049
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Past and Present written by David Thatcher Gies and published by Rookwood Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Amazons in Antiquity and Modern Times

Author : Guy Cadogan Rothery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Amazons in Antiquity and Modern Times written by Guy Cadogan Rothery and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ideology of Democratic Athens

Author : Barbato Matteo Barbato
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474466451
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Ideology of Democratic Athens written by Barbato Matteo Barbato and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the construction of democratic ideology in Classical Athens through a study of the social memory of Athens' mythical pastProposes a novel approach to Athenian democratic ideology that opens new frontiers of investigation in ancient history and the social sciencesThe introduction clearly sets out the aims and methodology of the book and its place within the scholarship in ancient history and the social sciencesFour case studies illuminate the impact of Athenian democratic institutions on ideology, myth, and the use of social memoryOffers a long-awaited new interpretation of the Athenian funeral oration for the war deadOffers clear overviews of Athenian democratic institutions (e.g., Assembly, Council, lawcourts) based on the most recent scholarshipProvides up-to-date overviews of several values in Greek thought (e.g., charis, hybris, eugeneia)The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athens' internal divisions. Another tradition, sometimes referred to as culturalist, interprets it neutrally as the fixed set of ideas shared by the members of the Athenian community. Matteo Barbato addresses this dichotomy by providing a unitary approach to Athenian democratic ideology. Analysing four different myths from the perspective of the New Institutionalism, he demonstrates that Athenian democratic ideology was a fluid set of ideas, values and beliefs shared by the Athenians as a result of a constant ideological practice influenced by the institutions of the democracy. He shows that this process entailed the active participation of both the mass and the elite and enabled the Athenians to produce multiple and compatible ideas about their community and its mythical past.

Truth and History in the Ancient World

Author : Lisa Hau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317558049
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Truth and History in the Ancient World written by Lisa Hau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true. Ancient Greek historiographers repeatedly stressed the importance of truth to history; yet they also purported to believe in myth, distorted facts for nationalistic or moralizing purposes, and omitted events that modern audiences might consider crucial to a truthful account of the past. Truth and History in the Ancient World explores a pluralistic concept of truth – one in which different versions of the same historical event can all be true – or different kinds of truths and modes of belief are contingent on culture. Beginning with comparisons between historiography and aspects of belief in Greek tragedy, chapters include discussions of historiography through the works of Herodotus, Xenophon, and Ktesias, as well as Hellenistic and later historiography, material culture in Vitruvius, and Lucian’s satire. Rather than investigate whether historiography incorporates elements of poetic, rhetorical, or narrative techniques to shape historical accounts, or whether cultural memory is flexible or manipulated, this volume examines pluralities of truth and belief within the ancient world – and consequences for our understanding of culture, ancient or otherwise.

Picturing the Modern Amazon

Author : New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Picturing the Modern Amazon written by New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictured in two centuries of images, the hypermuscular and physically strong woman is studied here for the first time as a major player in popular culture and contemporary art. Using the bodybuilder as prototype, a rich variety of authors engage with her particular physicality, and how it resonates with social issues such as female pleasure and gender stereotypes. From the sublime to the gritty, this volume presents modern amazons as a culture with a history, a dazzling and transgressive current phenomenon, and avatars of the future. Packed with illustrations, "Picturing the Modern Amazon" investigates the representation of hypermuscular women in a range of visual sources. Historical images and archival materials dating from the late 1700s through the present century illustrate older notions of female strength, providing a solid base of comparison for the modern materials. Contemporary art explores a diversity of issues surrounding the physically strong woman; artists represented include Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Nicole Eisenman, Annie Leibovitz, Alison Saar, Andre Serrano, Cindy Sherman, and Nancy Spero. Comic artists address the amazon through comic strips, comic books, and unique art works that focus on muscular female characters and superheros; artists include Robert Crumb, Diane DiMassa, Roberta Gregory, John Howard, and Turtel Onli. Photographs of some of today's top bodybuilding competitors capture the stunning strength and definition of the hypermuscular woman. Co-edited by Joanna Frueh, Laurie Fierstein, and Judith Stein, the volume's contributors are Michael Cunningham, Nathalie Gassel, Leslie Heywood, Irving Lavin, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Al Thomas, Jan Todd, Steve Wennerstrom, and Carla Williams. Interviews with noted bodybuilders-both the sport's pioneers and today's top competitors-provide a personal perspective.

Fiction & Books for the Young

Author : Denver Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Fiction & Books for the Young written by Denver Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nostalgia and Sexual Difference (RLE Feminist Theory)

Author : Janice Doane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136204016
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Nostalgia and Sexual Difference (RLE Feminist Theory) written by Janice Doane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissatisfaction with the present can cause people to gaze nostalgically back to an idealized past; that nostalgia pervades contemporary rhetoric. In lamenting the ‘degeneracy’ of present-day America, social and literary critics as well as contemporary novelists often choose as their scapegoat the women’s movement and its increasing influence. Doane and Hodges show us how these social observers seek to ‘reinstate’ America and American values in ways that, overtly or covertly, do battle with the feminist movement for control of rhetoric, the power of language.