The Woman Warrior-Hero Of Hollywood Science Fiction Cinema : Genre, Gender and American Society

ISBN-13: 9783639126242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 68 str.

Catherine Gomes

Opis

This study concerns itself with the representationand metaphor of the American female gender in the ageof worldly greed in the 1980s and 1990s and how thisbecomes symbolically represented by the womanwarrior-hero of contemporary science fiction films.It puts forward the argument that America wasundergoing great social changes due to the pursuit ofthe American Dream, which was fuelled by this elementof greed during these two decades. In the process,the balance of corporate and political power that wasonce the domain of male hegemony, was now challenged.This is because women became the new power brokersand patriarchal concepts of the status and role ofwomen was now being reshaped as she was no longer thedutiful wife, mother and efficient homemaker. Insteadshe emerged to become the passionate politician,enterprising entrepreneur and sexual predator whoseaggressive persona became difficult to ignore. Thisresearch thus makes a correlation between the socialchanges and challenges the American working woman wasundergoing with Hollywood s representation of hermeteoric rise in the form of the woman warrior-herocharacter.

O autorze

Catherine Gomes holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and
is currently lecturing in the School of Media and Communication
at RMIT University. Catherine has published in the areas of
Asian media and culture, gender and ethnicity.