James Ursini Unisex Multicolor Modern Amazons : Warrior Women On-Screen Paperback Book

James Ursini

The Modern AmazonsWarrior Women On-Screen\nAuthor(s): James Ursini\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation, United States\nImprint: Limelight Editions\nISBN-13: 9780879103279, 978-0879103279\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\n\nThe book itself is organized into chapters that group women warriors into sub-genres, [url] 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.