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Review Of Flash Gordon, Michael Adams 2010 City University of New York

Review Of Flash Gordon, Michael Adams

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Review of Mike Hodges' Flash Gordon: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2010/07/flash-gordon-bluray.html


"Just A Girl": The Community-Centered Cult Television Heroine, 1995–2007, Tamy Burnett 2010 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

"Just A Girl": The Community-Centered Cult Television Heroine, 1995–2007, Tamy Burnett

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Found in the most recent group of cult heroines on television, community-centered cult heroines share two key characteristics. The first is their youth and the related coming-of-age narratives that result. The second is their emphasis on communal heroic action that challenges traditional understandings of the hero and previous constructions of the cult heroine on television. Through close readings of Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Dark Angel, and Veronica Mars, this project engages feminist theories of community and heroism alongside critical approaches to genre and narrative technique, identity performance theory, and visual media …


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