Women willing to fight
Subtitle: the fighting woman in film
By: edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick.
Contributors: Andris, Silke.; Frederick, Ursula.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars; Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Newcastle, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781847181428
Subjects: Women in motion pictures; Adventure films -- History and criticism
Notes: Filmography: p. [189]-196.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-188) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why women willing to fight? An introduction / Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick; title: The neomyth in film : the woman warrior from Joan of Arc to Ellen Ripley / Barbara Creed; title: Just a woman among the cyborgs : Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: judgement day / Catherine Summerhayes; title: Past, present, future : finding treasure in the lives of Lara Croft / Ursula Frederick; title: Violence, duty and choice : the military woman in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Yvonne Tasker; title: Million dollar baby : the making and unmaking of the female boxer's body / Silke Andris; title: Fighting to be seen : looking for women in the West, from The searchers to The missing / Martin Flanagan; title: Belles with attitude : genealogies of the new Hollywood wisecracking action heroine / Polona Petek; title: Zhang Ziyi, "Martial Arthouse" and the transnational Nuxia / Leon Hunt; title: Superheroine : women as martial artists in early twenty-first century cinema / Catherine Driscoll.