Heroines of Film and Television

by Katie Snyder, Jennifer K Stuller, and Jeffrey A. Brown

Norma Jones (Editor), Maja Bajac-Carter (Editor), and Bob Batchelor (Editor)

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As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simple stereotypes of acutely weak or overly strong women. Although heroines continue to represent the traditional roles of mothers, goddesses, warriors, whores, witches, and priestesses, these women are no longer just damsels in distress or violent warriors.

In Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture, award-winning authors from a variety of disciplines examine the changing roles of heroic women across time. In this volume, editors Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter, and...Read more
  • ISBN10 1306573300
  • ISBN13 9781306573306
  • Publish Date 1 January 2014
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 9 June 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
  • Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 268
  • Language English