The Modern Amazons Warrior Women on Screen documents the publics 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 secondwave feminist movement in the late sixties and seventies and the presentday onslaught of female action characters now leaping from page to screen. The book itself is organized into chapters that group women warriors into subgenres 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 scifi warriors from Star Trek Blade Runner and Star Wars supersleuths and spies like the Avengers and Charlies 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 popularculture 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. show more