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Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture
Language: en
Pages: 301
Authors: Simon Bacon
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-04-09 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books. These contemporary ‘final’ girls do not just
Fierce Heroines
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Rosie Knight
Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-15 - Publisher: Hachette UK

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This inclusive and diverse anthology gathers seventy-five empowering heroines -- perfect for pop culture fans of all ages. Whether it's anime, movies, video gam
Sporting Blackness
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Samantha N. Sheppard
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-16 - Publisher: University of California Press

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Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by re
The New Female Antihero
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Sarah Hagelin
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-25 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television. The last ten years have seen a
No Future
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: Lee Edelman
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-12-06 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, w
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