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Love and the Fighting Female - A Critical Study of Onscreen Depictions (Paperback)
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Love and the Fighting Female - A Critical Study of Onscreen Depictions (Paperback)
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The fighting female archetype--a self-reliant woman of great
physical prowess--has become increasingly common in action films
and on television. However, the progressive female identities of
these narratives cannot always resist the persistent and
problematic framing of male-female relationships as a battle of the
sexes or other source of antagonism. Combining cultural analysis
with close readings of key popular American film and television
texts since the 1980s, this study argues that certain fighting
female themes question regressive conventions in male-female
relationships. Those themes reveal potentially progressive
ideologies regarding female agency in mass culture that reassure
audiences of the desirability of empowered women while also
imagining egalitarian intimacies that further empower women.
Overall, the fighting female narratives addressed here afford
contradictory viewing pleasures that reveal both new expectations
for and remaining anxieties about the "strong, independent woman"
ideal that emerged in American popular culture post-feminism.
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