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The Action-Adventure Heroine

Author : Sandra Wilson Smith
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781621905806
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Action-Adventure Heroine written by Sandra Wilson Smith and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Found in scores of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American narratives, the action-adventure heroine leaves the domestic space to pursue an independent adventure. This bold heroine tramps alone through the forests, demonstrates tremendous physical strength, braves dangers without hesitation, enters the public realm to earn money, and even kills her enemies when necessary. Despite her transgressions of social norms, the narrator portrays this heroine in a positive light and lauds her for her bravery and daring. The Action-Adventure Heroine offers a wide-ranging look at this enigmatic character in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Unlike the "tomboy" or the American frontierswoman, this more encompassing figure has been understudied until now. The action-adventure heroine has special relevance today, as scholars are forcefully challenging the once-dominant separate-spheres paradigm and offering alternative interpretations of gender conventions in nineteenth-century America. The hard-body action heroine in our contemporary popular culture is often assumed to be largely a product of the twentieth-century television and film industries (and therefore influenced by the women's movement); however, physically strong, agile, sometimes violent female figures have appeared in American popular culture and literature for a very long time. Smith analyzes captivity narratives, war narratives, stories of manifest destiny, dime novels, and tales of seduction to reveal the long literary history of female protagonists who step into traditionally masculine heroic roles to win the day. Smith's study includes such authors as Herman Mann, Mercy Otis Warren, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Edward L. Wheeler, and many more who are due for critical reassessment. In examining the female hero-with her strength, physicality, and violence-in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American narratives, The Action-Adventure Heroine represents an important contribution to the field of American studies. Book jacket.

The Action Heroine's Handbook

Author : Jennifer Worick
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1594745862
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Action Heroine's Handbook written by Jennifer Worick and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the would-be Wonder Woman or Charlie’s Angel: an empowering how-to guide for conquering life’s toughest challenges—and saving the world one baddie at a time For every woman who wants to be as tough as Lara Croft, as nimble as the Bionic Woman, and as babe-a-licious as Charlie’s Angels, The Action Heroine’s Handbook shows you the essential skills you’ll need to conquer the bad guys and save the day without breaking a sweat. Find out how the real action heroines do it, directly from a host of experts, including stuntwomen, jujitsu instructors, helicopter pilots, detectives, forensic psychologists, survivalists, primatologists, and many others. Learn to: • Profile a serial killer • Outwit a band of home intruders • Navigate white water rapids • Go undercover as a beauty queen • Outrun a fireball And dozens of other Tough Chick Skills, Beauty Skills, Brain Skills, Brawn Skills, and Escape Skills. Special sections and appendices feature the top action heroine hairdos, handbag essentials, and the best footwear for every action situation. With step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow illustrations, The Action Heroine’s Handbook will prepare you to save the world, one baddie at a time.

Alanna

Author : Tamora Pierce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439120293
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Alanna written by Tamora Pierce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl disguises herself as a boy to train as a knight in this first book in Tamora Pierce’s Margaret A. Edwards Award–winning young adult series—now with a new look! From now on, I’m Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I’ll be a knight. In a time when girls are forbidden to be warriors, Alanna of Trebond wants nothing more than to be a knight of the realm of Tortall. So she finds a way to switch places with her twin brother, Thom, and, disguised as a boy, begins her training as a page at the palace of King Roald. But the road to knighthood, as she discovers, is not an easy one. Alanna must master weapons, combat, and magic, as well as polite behavior, her temper, and even her own heart. So begin Alanna’s adventures—filled with swords and sorcery, adventure and intrigue, good and evil—that will lead to the fulfillment of her dreams and make her a legend in the land.

Out of Her Separate Sphere

Author : Sandra W. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Out of Her Separate Sphere written by Sandra W. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Heroine's Journey

Author : Maureen Murdock
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611808308
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book The Heroine's Journey written by Maureen Murdock and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heroine’s Journey describes contemporary woman’s search for wholeness in a society where she has been defined according to masculine values. Drawing on cultural myths and fairy tales, ancient symbols and goddesses, and the dreams of contemporary women, Murdock illustrates the need for—and the reality of—feminine values in Western culture. This special anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Christine Downing and preface by the author, illuminates that this need is just as relevant today as it was when the book was originally published thirty years ago.

The Informationist

Author : Taylor Stevens
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307717119
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Informationist written by Taylor Stevens and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governments pay her. Criminals fear her. Nobody sees her coming. Vanessa “Michael” Munroe deals in information—expensive information—working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen. As his protégé, she earned the respect of the jungle's most dangerous men, cultivating her own reputation for years until something sent her running. After almost a decade building a new life and lucrative career from her home base in Dallas, she's never looked back. Until now. A Texas oil billionaire has hired her to find his daughter who vanished in Africa four years ago. It’s not her usual line of work, but she can’t resist the challenge. Pulled deep into the mystery of the missing girl, Munroe finds herself back in the lands of her childhood, betrayed, cut off from civilization, and left for dead. If she has any hope of escaping the jungle and the demons that drive her, she must come face-to-face with the past that she’s tried for so long to forget. The first book in the Vanessa Michael Munroe series, gripping, ingenious, and impeccably paced, The Informationist marks the arrival or a thrilling new talent. “Stevens’s blazingly brilliant debut introduces a great new action heroine, Vanessa Michael Munroe, who doesn’t have to kick over a hornet’s nest to get attention, though her feral, take-no-prisoners attitude reflects the fire of Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander….Thriller fans will eagerly await the sequel to this high-octane page-turner.” —Publishers Weekly, starred, boxed review

Liberation

Author : Imogen Kealey
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 153873320X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Liberation written by Imogen Kealey and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the true story of World War II's greatest heroine, this international bestseller and "cinematic treat" tells the story of Nancy Wake and the impact she had on the world (Publishers Weekly). Hero. Soldier. Spy. Leader. Her name is Nancy Wake. To the Allies, she was a fearless freedom fighter, a special operations legend, a woman ahead of her time. To the Gestapo, she was a ghost, a shadow, the most wanted person in the world. But at first, Nancy Wake was just another young woman living in Marseilles and recently engaged to a man she loved. Then France fell to the Nazi blitzkrieg. With her appetite for danger, Nancy quickly finds herself drawn into the underground Resistance standing up to Nazi rule. Gaining notoriety as the White Mouse, with a 5-million-franc bounty hanging over her head, Wake rises to the top of the Nazi's Most Wanted list—only to find her husband arrested for treasonous activity under suspicion of being the White Mouse himself. Narrowly escaping to Britain, Wake joins the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and parachutes into the Auvergne, where she must fight for the respect of some of the toughest Resistance fighters in France. As she and her maquisards battle the Nazis, their every engagement brings the end of the war closer—but also places her husband in deeper peril. A riveting, richly imagined historical thriller, Liberation brings to life one of World War II's most fascinating unsung heroines in all her fierce power and complexity. This is the story of one of the one of the war's most decorated women, told like never before.

Black Market Heroine

Author : Russell Nohelty
Publisher : Wannabe Press, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Market Heroine written by Russell Nohelty and published by Wannabe Press, LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ollie wasn't looking for trouble, but after she saved the Antichrist from being slaughtered, it came for her. Ollie lived by one rule. Never get involved with anyone for any reason; humans, demons, fae folk, it didn't matter. They were all trouble. keeping her distance was how she survived in the criminal underworld for so long. Keep your head down and don't piss anyone off. That was her motto, especially since her clients all had access to powerful dark magic. She thought she had a flawless system for keeping her nose clean, so how did she wind up in a stolen car, with a demon spawn in her back seat, driving away from her ex-lover and a gang of demons ready to skin her alive? That's a good question. And why did she agree to help save the demon girl's life so she didn't get sacrificed to open the gates of hell? An even better question. Ollie had one rule. One stupid rule. And tonight... ...it goes right down the toilet. Now, the only way for ollie to get her life back is to save the girl, prevent the apocalypse, and track down the jerk who betrayed her. They will pay. Oh yes, they will all pay. Writer: Russell Nohelty Artist: Cammry Lapka Letterer: Joel Rodriguez Proofreader: Katrina Roets

Strong Female Protagonist Book Two

Author : Brennan Lee Mulligan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 069290610X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Strong Female Protagonist Book Two written by Brennan Lee Mulligan and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superheroes meet social justice as the wildly popular webcomic comes to print, blending action with relatable young-adult drama and remarkably thoughtful philosophy. This full-color collection features over 300 pages of the ongoing series plus a brand-new short story. Alison Green used to be a superhero. With unlimited strength and invulnerability, she fought crime with a group of other teens under the alter ego Mega Girl. All that changed after an encounter with Menace, her mind-reading arch-enemy, who showed her evidence of a sinister conspiracy that made battling giant robots seem suddenly unimportant. Now Alison is going to college in New York City, trying to find ways to actually help the world while making friends and getting to class on time. It's impossible to escape the past, however, and trouble comes in the form of mysterious murders, ex-teammates with a grudge, robots with a strange sense of humor, an inconvenient crush, a cantankerous professor, and many different kinds of people who think they know the best way to be a hero.

A Companion to the Action Film

Author : James Kendrick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119100763
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Action Film written by James Kendrick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative guide to the action-packed film genre With 24 incisive, cutting-edge contributions from esteemed scholars and critics, A Companion to the Action Filmprovides an authoritative and in-depth guide to this internationally popular and wide-ranging genre. As the first major anthology on the action film in more than a decade, the volume offers insights into the genre’s historical development, explores its production techniques and visual poetics, and provides reflections on the numerous social, cultural, and political issues it has and continues to embody. A Companion to the Action Film offers original research and critical analysis that examines the iconic characteristics of the genre, its visual aesthetics, and its narrative traits; considers the impact of major directors and stars on the genre’s evolution; puts the action film in dialogue with various technologies and other forms of media such as graphic novels and television; and maps out new avenues of critical study for the future. This important resource: Offers a definitive guide to the action film Contains insightful contributions from a wide range of international film experts and scholars Reviews the evolution of the genre from the silent era to today’s age of digital blockbusters Offers nuanced commentary and analysis of socio-cultural issues such as race, nationality, and gender in action films Written for scholars, teachers and students in film studies, film theory, film history, genre studies, and popular culture, A Companion to the Action Film is an essential guide to one of international cinema’s most important, popular, and influential genres.

Spiral Hunt

Author : Margaret Ronald
Publisher : Harper Voyager
ISBN 13 : 9780061662416
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Spiral Hunt written by Margaret Ronald and published by Harper Voyager. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people have the Sight. Genevieve Scelan has the Scent. They call her "Hound," and with her unique supernatural sense Evie can track nearly anything—lost keys, vanished family heirlooms . . . even missing people. And though she knows to stay out of the magical undercurrent that runs beneath Boston's historic streets, a midnight phone call from a long-vanished lover will destroy the careful boundaries she has drawn. Now, to pay a years-old debt, Evie must venture into the shadowy world that lies between myth and reality, where she will find betrayal, conspiracies, and revelations that will shatter all she believes about herself and the city she claims as home. When the Hunt is on, the Hound must run . . .

The Action and Adventure Cinema

Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134564945
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Action and Adventure Cinema written by Yvonne Tasker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing areas such as genre, film history and style, action and spectacle, stars and bodies, action auteurs and the film industry, the reader covers both Hollywood and also European and Asian action cinema.

Death (Skye Roxy)

Author : Alistair Findlay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Death (Skye Roxy) written by Alistair Findlay and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book of the Skye Roxy Adventures by Alistair Findlay, Skye Roxy finds herself on a head-on collision with a dangerous cartel in the depths of Ghana, on the search for a lost bracelet said to have the power to raise the dead. She has been trained by the best. She knows how to shoot, how to fight, and to survive. She's brave. Fearless. Courageous and just sixteen years old. Skye Roxy's first adventure may well be her last. The Skye Roxy Adventures is a series of books following a sixteen-year-old heroine as she travels the world looking for lost treasures and artifacts, more often than not finding trouble and adventure wherever she goes. Fans of Lara Croft, and Alex Ryder, will love this strong, brave, and fearless heroine.

Sapphire's Castle

Author : Peter Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692274040
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Sapphire's Castle written by Peter Clark and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sapphire's Castle is a fun exciting children's book. Sapphire and her best friend Archer use their imaginations to defeat a two headed dragon.

The Action and Adventure Cinema

Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134564937
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Action and Adventure Cinema written by Yvonne Tasker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as one of the leading commercial genres of the New Hollywood cinema, generating extensive debate in the process. Contributors consider how action might best be defined, how it has developed historically, and how it works formally. The critical reception and standing of action and adventure cinema is considered in relation to questions of national culture, violence and the 'art' of cinema. Themes explored include genre and definitions; early action, sensation and melodrama; authorship and action; national and transnational action-adventure traditions; action aesthetics; spectacle and narrative; stars and bodies; class; gender; race and ethnicity. Attempting to evaluate the significance of this type of filmmaking for both popular cinema and film studies, the book underlines the central place of action and adventure within film history.

The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film

Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470659246
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film written by Yvonne Tasker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hollywood Action and Adventure Film presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of the history, myriad themes, and critical approaches to the action and adventure genre in American cinema. Draws on a wide range of examples, spanning the silent spectacles of early cinema to the iconic superheroes of 21st-century action films Features case studies revealing the genre’s diverse roots – from westerns and war films, to crime and espionage movies Explores a rich variety of aesthetic and thematic concerns that have come to define the genre, touching on themes such as the outsider hero, violence and redemption, and adventure as escape from the mundane Integrates discussion of gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality alongside genre history Provides a timely and richly revealing portrait of a powerful cinematic genre that has increasingly come to dominate the American cinematic landscape

Amberella

Author : Carole Wells
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463436769
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Amberella written by Carole Wells and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amberella is An Action Hero Adventure story of a little princess searching to find her mother. She travels through different exotic lands experiencing frightening and funny encounters. The Queens from different enchanting lands teach her wisdom, respect and secret guide lines to prepare her for her future. She learns from different animals how to communicate and respect all living creatures. Many children have responsibilities beyond their years. Amberella is a fantasy to help children cope with adult problems by learning that the Laws of the Universe can make them stronger and more successful. Amberella demonstrates how to believe in one's self and dare to live one's dreams. Critics are saying that Amberella is not only for children, but a book for all ages!