Athena's daughters : television's new women warriors / ed. by Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy

Early, Frances H. ; Kennedy, Kathleen

1. ed.

English

Syracuse, NY : Syracuse Univ. Press, c 2003

XVI, 175 S. ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-166) and index

0-8156-2968-0 cl. : alk. paper

0-8156-2989-3 pbk. : alk. paper

Xena, Warrior Princess -- The baby, the mother, and the empire: Xena as ancient hero / Alison Futrell -- Tall, dark, and dangerous: Xena, the quest, and the wielding of sexual violence in Xena on-line fan fiction / Helen Caudill -- Love is the battlefield: the making and the unmaking of the just warrior in Xena, Warrior Princess / Kathleen Kennedy -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- The female just warrior reimagined: from Boudicca to Buffy / Frances Early -- "If you're not enjoying it, you're doing something wrong": textual and viewer constructions of Faith, the Vampire Slayer / Sue Tjardes -- "Action, chicks, everything": on-line interviews with male fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Lee Parpart -- Buffy? she's like me, she's not like --she's Rad / Vivian Chin -- La femme Nikita -- "The most powerful weapon you have": warriors and gender in La femme Nikita / Laura Ng -- Star trek: Voyager -- We who are Borg, are we Borg? / Edrie Sobstyl

*USA / Fernsehen / Abenteuerfilm / Heldin

*Frau / Fernsehfilm

*Women heroes on television ; Action and adventure television programs -- History and criticism

Library of Congress Classification: PN1992.8.W65

Dewey Decimal Classification: 791.45/652042 ; 791.45652042

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: AP 35160: A Allgemeines / AP Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften, Kommunikationsdesign / Programmthemen und -inhalte

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: AP 36320: A Allgemeines / AP Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften, Kommunikationsdesign / Hör- und Fernsehspiel

Xena, Warrior Princess -- The baby, the mother, and the empire: Xena as ancient hero / Alison Futrell -- Tall, dark, and dangerous: Xena, the quest, and the wielding of sexual violence in Xena on-line fan fiction / Helen Caudill -- Love is the battlefield: the making and the unmaking of the just warrior in Xena, Warrior Princess / Kathleen Kennedy -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- The female just warrior reimagined: from Boudicca to Buffy / Frances Early -- "If you're not enjoying it, you're doing something wrong": textual and viewer constructions of Faith, the Vampire Slayer / Sue Tjardes -- "Action, chicks, everything": on-line interviews with male fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Lee Parpart -- Buffy? she's like me, she's not like --she's Rad / Vivian Chin -- La femme Nikita -- "The most powerful weapon you have": warriors and gender in La femme Nikita / Laura Ng -- Star trek: Voyager -- We who are Borg, are we Borg? / Edrie Sobstyl

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