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Norma Jones has a PhD in communication and information from Kent State University. She is an editor of Rowman & Littlefield's Sports Icons and Issues in Popular Culture book series and is coeditor of Aging Heroes: Growing Old in Popular Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).
Maja Bajac-Carter is a doctoral candidate in Communication Studies at Kent State University. Her research focuses on gender, identity, and media studies. She is a contributor to We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American Life . . . and Always Has (2014).
Bob Batchelor teaches in the Media, Journalism & Film department at Miami University and is the founding editor of the Popular Culture Studies Journal. Batchelor edits the Contemporary American Literature and Cultural History of Television book series for Rowman & Littlefield. Among his books are John Updike: A Critical Biography (2013), Gatsby: The Cultural History of the Great American Novel (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), and Mad Men: A Cultural History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction I. Heroines on TelevisionChapter 1: The Erotic Heroine and the politics of gender at work: A feminist reading of Mad Men’s Joan Harris, Suzy D’Enbeau and Patrice M. BuzzanellChapter 2: Burn One Down: Nancy Botwin as (Post)Feminist (Anti)Heroine, Katie SnyderChapter 3: Choosing Her “Fae”te: Subversive Sexuality and Lost Girl’s Re/evolutionary Female Hero, Jennifer K. StullerII. Heroines on FilmChapter 4: Torture, Rape, Action Heroines and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Jeffrey A. Brown Chapter 5: The Maternal Hero in Tarantino’s Kill Bill, Maura GradyChapter 6: We’ve Seen this Deadly Web Before: Repackaging Femme Fatale & Representing Superhero(in)e as Neo-noir ‘Black Widow’ in Sin City, Ryan Castillo and Katie GibsonChapter 7: Romance, Comedy, Conspiracy: The Paranoid Heroine in Contemporary Romantic Comedy, Pedro PonceChapter 8: Conflicted Hybridity: Negotiating the Warrior Princess Archetype in Willow, Cassandra BausmanChapter 9: The Woman Who Fell From the Sky: Cowboys and Aliens’ Hybrid Heroine, Cynthia J. MillerIII. Diversity ConcernsChapter 10: Her Story, Too: Final Fantasy X, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and the Feminist Hero's Journey, Catherine Bailey KyleChapter 11: Bollywood Marriages: Portrayals of Matrimony in Hindi Popular Cinema, Rekha Sharma and Carol A. SaveryChapter 12: The Enduring Woman: Race, Revenge, and Self-Determination in Chloe, Love is Calling You, Robin R. Means ColemanChapter 13: The Dark, Twisted Magical Girls: Shōjo Heroines in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Lien Fan ShenIV: Heroines across MediaChapter 14: Women on the Quarterdeck: The Female Captain as Adventure Hero, 1994-2009, A. Bowdoin Van RiperChapter 15: The Girl Who Lived: Reading Harry Potter as a Sacrificial and Loving Heroine, Norma JonesChapter 16: “It’s About Power and It’s About Women”: Gender and the Political Economy of Superheroes in Wonder Woman and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Carolyn CoccaIndex About the ContributorsAbout the Editors
The diversity of authorial voices, including men and women, creates an exciting compilation of articles that challenge and redefine the definition of heroine. . . .Overall, this is a great collection of essays that should please anyone with an interest in feminism and media.
— Journal of American Culture