Modern Amazons - Dominique Mainon

The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen documents the public's seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on television. The book examines the cautious beginnings of new roles for women in the late fifties
the rapid development of female action leads during the burgeoning second-wave feminist movement in the late sixties and seventies
and the present-day onslaught of female action characters now leaping from page to screen.The book itself is organized into chapters that group women warriors into sub-genres
e.g.
classic Amazons like Xena Warrior Princess and the women of the Conan films; superheroes and their archenemies such as Wonder Woman
Batgirl
and Catwoman; revenge films such as the Kill Bill movies; Sexploitation and Blaxploitation films such as Coffy and the Ilsa trilogy; Hong Kong cinema and warriors like Angela Mao
Cynthia Rothrock
and Zhang Ziyi; sci-fi warriors from Star Trek
Blade Runner
and Star Wars; supersleuths and spies like the Avengers and Charlie's Angels; and gothic warriors such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Kate Beckinsale in Underworld and Van Helsing. In addition
the book is lavishly illustrated with over 400 photos of these popular-culture icons in action
interesting articles and sidebars about themes
trends
weapons
style
and trivia
as well as a complete filmography of more than 150 titles.