The Woman Warrior-Hero Of Hollywood Science Fiction Cinema
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This study concerns itself with the representation and metaphor of the American female gender in the age of worldly greed in the 1980s and 1990s and how this becomes symbolically represented by the woman warrior-hero of contemporary science fiction films. It puts forward the argument that America was undergoing great social changes due to the pursuit of the American Dream, which was fuelled by this element of greed during these two decades. In the process, the balance of corporate and political power that was once the domain of male hegemony, was now challenged. This is because women became the new power brokers and patriarchal concepts of the status and role of women was now being reshaped as she was no longer the dutiful wife, mother and efficient homemaker. Instead she emerged to become the passionate politician, enterprising entrepreneur and sexual predator whose aggressive persona became difficult to ignore. This research thus makes a correlation between the social changes and...Похожие книги
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