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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 Bob
Batchelor have assembled a collection of essays that broaden our
understanding of how heroines are portrayed across media, offering
readers new ways to understand, perceive, and think about women.
Contributors bring fresh readings to popular films and television
shows such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kill Bill, Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, Weeds, Mad Men, and Star Trek. The representations
and interpretations of these heroines are important reflections of
popular culture that simultaneously empower and constrain real life
women. These essays help readers gain a more complete understanding
of female heroes, especially as related to race, gender, power, and
culture. A companion volume to Heroines of Comic Books and
Literature, this collection will appeal to academics and broader
audiences that are interested in women in popular culture.
Despite the increasing number and variety of older characters
appearing in film, television, comics, and other popular culture,
much of the understanding of these figures has been limited to
outdated stereotypes of aging. These include depictions of frailty,
resistance to modern life, and mortality. More importantly, these
stereotypes influence the daily lives of aging adults, as well as
how younger generations perceive and interact with older
individuals. In light of our graying population and the growing
diversity of portrayals of older characters in popular culture, it
is important to examine how we understand aging. In Aging Heroes:
Growing Old in Popular Culture, Norma Jones and Bob Batchelor
present a collection of essays that address the increasing presence
of characters that simultaneously manifest and challenge the
accepted stereotypes of aging. The contributors to this volume
explore representations in television programs, comic books,
theater, and other forms of media. The chapters include
examinations of aging male and female actors who take on leading
roles in such movies as Gran Torino, Grudge Match, Escape Plan,
Space Cowboys, Taken, and The Big Lebowski as well as The
Expendables, Red, and X-Men franchises. Other chapters address
perceptions of masculinity, sexuality, gender, and race as
manifested by such cultural icons as Superman, Wonder Woman, Danny
Trejo, Helen Mirren, Betty White, Liberace, and Tyler Perry's
Madea. With multi-disciplinary and accessible essays that encompass
the expanding spectrum of aging and related stereotypes, this book
offers a broader range of new ways to understand, perceive, and
think about aging. Aging Heroes will be of interest to scholars of
film, television, gender studies, women's studies, sociology, aging
studies, and media studies, as well as to general readers.
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 Bob
Batchelor have assembled a collection of essays that broaden our
understanding of how heroines are portrayed across media, offering
readers new ways to understand, perceive, and think about women.
Contributors bring fresh readings to popular films and television
shows such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kill Bill, Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, Weeds, Mad Men, and Star Trek. The representations
and interpretations of these heroines are important reflections of
popular culture that simultaneously empower and constrain real life
women. These essays help readers gain a more complete understanding
of female heroes, especially as related to race, gender, power, and
culture. A companion volume to Heroines of Comic Books and
Literature, this collection will appeal to academics and broader
audiences that are interested in women in popular culture.
Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in
the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive
decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women
living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their
control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice: Explorations
into Discourses of Reproduction explores contemporary maternity
both within and in light of these late-twentieth century
understandings. Employing a variety of feminist communication
approaches, the volume's contributors discuss how discourses of
choice shape and are shaped by women's identities and experiences
as (non)mothers and how those same discourses affect and reflect
private practices and public policies related to reproduction and
motherhood. Through this process, the contributors illustrate a
variety of ways of conducting feminist thinking, research, and
practices within the communication discipline. Major
sub-disciplines within communication studies are represented here
including feminist organizational, interpersonal, rhetorical,
critical/cultural, and social movement studies. Whereas many of the
previous scholarly investigations into maternity highlight only one
aspect or phase of motherhood, Contemplating Maternity in an Era of
Choice is unique because it investigates discourses of choice
across the arc of maternity and as enacted through various
(non)maternal subject positions.
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