Action Heroines in the 21st Century

Sisters in Arms

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvFran Pheasant-Kelly,Christa Van Raalte,University of Wolverhampton) Pheasant-Kelly, Fran (Reader in Screen Studies,Bournemouth University) Van Raalte, Christa (Associate Professor of Film and Television,Christa van Raalte

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Action Heroines in the Twenty-First Century highlights the changing representation of female protagonists in recent action-led genres. It responds to an upturn in women-centred narratives over the past two decades, specifically, those that involve groups of women in action. The work demonstrates how this collective agency reflects an increasingly global rejection of violence towards women (illustrated through initiatives such as the #MeToo movement, and the united reactions to the deaths of Sarah Everard, Sabina Nessa and the deaths of young Iranian women detained by security forces in Iran in 2022). It is against this backdrop that an escalating number of action films released over recent years counter contemporaneous perceptions of women as victims in the face of threat and enable progressive media representations of women. ???????This book charts such representations from a diverse range of national cinemas and genres, moving from remakes of Charlie's Angels through to the Western, eco-activism, action-comedy and Marvel's superheroines, thus providing a broad platform for its argument and highlighting the growing significance of action heroines operating collectively.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-31
Mått156 x 234 x 26 mm
Vikt662 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor344
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399529754

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Dr Fran Pheasant-Kelly is Reader in Screen Studies and Director of Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture at the University of Wolverhampton. Christa Van Raalte is Associate Professor of Film and Television at Bournemouth University. Her research interests include constructions of gender in science fiction and action films, narrative strategies in complex TV, and working conditions in the film and television industries. She has recently published articles on these topics in journals including the New Review for Film and Television Studies, the Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Media Industries, She is co-editor (with Frances Pheasant-Kelly) of Action Heroines in the 21st Century: Sisters in Arms to be published by EUP in August 2025

List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsForeword - Lisa PurseIntroduction - Christa van Raalte and Fran Pheasant-KellyPart One Collectivity and Agency1. Sisters in Arms, or How Collectivity Facilitates an Individual’s Agency - Alicja Bemben 2. Agency and Sisterhood in the Revisionist Western: The Missing (2003), The Keeping Room (2014) and Godless (2017) as Feminist Westerns - Frances Pheasant-Kelly 3. Gangs or Vigilantes: Locating Action and the ‘Angry Young Women’ of Bollywood in Gulaab Gang (2014) - Gauri Durga Chakraborty 4. The ‘Mountain Woman’ in Woman at War (2018): An Eco-Activist Action Heroine and her Sister(s)-in-Arms - Lavinia Brydon Part Two Feminisms and Feminites5. ‘Once upon a time there were three little girls’: Violence, Glamour, and Working Women in Charlie’s Angels - Lucy Bolton6. Exploring the Second Closet: Femininity and Power in Charlie’s Angels (2019) - Aviva Dove-Viebahn7. ‘I Know My Value’: Feminism, Femininity and Transgression in Marvel’s Agent Carter - Laura Crossley 8. Harley Quinn: Trickster, Action Heroine, and a Reluctant Team Player - Helena Bassil-Morozow Part three Resistance and Recuperation9. Friendship, Fashion, and Action Comedy: Female Partnerships in US Action Cinema - Yvonne Tasker 10. The Girlfriend Action Flick - Christopher Holliday 11. Armed and Dangerous: Policewomen in TV Series: A New Equality of Arms - Mathieu Arbogast 12. Sisters in Arms in Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) - Marianne Kac-Vergne Part Four Intersectionality and the Evolving Action Heroine13. Passing the Baton: Age, Action and Mentorship in Three Hollywood Films - Christa van Raalte 14. Be Gay, Do Crime? The Construction of Ocean’s 8 as a Lesbian Heist Movie - Esmé Fransen 15. ‘Nubian Queen Rise’: The Black Queer Action Heroine, Sisterhood and the Closet in Captain Marvel (2019) and The Harder They Fall (2021) - Jenny Alexander 16. The Old Guard’s (2020) New Order: Gina Prince-Bythewood, Andy and Nile, and ‘the opportunity to put a young Black female hero into the world’ - Deborah Jermyn Index

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