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Pain, Porn and Complicity: Women Heroes from Pygmalion to Twilight

Kathleen McConnell

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Why does Bella lie so much in the Twilight series? Why was Catwoman such a bad movie? What was the reason Dark Angel was so short-lived? Poet and scholar Kathleen McConnell tackles these, and other, subjects in this collection of essays. Drawing on analysis from Freud to chaos theory, and a large body of research, McConnell starts with Pygmalion, and unravels the cultural threads that bind the way women protagonists are characterized in popular culture. This careful, and at times wry, examination considers not only why women are portrayed in these ways, but discusses the effect of those characterizations on the culture that consumes them.

Language: English

Pages: 194

Format: Paperback

Release: November 01, 2012

ISBN 13: 9781894987684

Pain, Porn and Complicity: Women Heroes from Pygmalion to Twilight

Kathleen McConnell

0/5 ( ratings)

Why does Bella lie so much in the Twilight series? Why was Catwoman such a bad movie? What was the reason Dark Angel was so short-lived? Poet and scholar Kathleen McConnell tackles these, and other, subjects in this collection of essays. Drawing on analysis from Freud to chaos theory, and a large body of research, McConnell starts with Pygmalion, and unravels the cultural threads that bind the way women protagonists are characterized in popular culture. This careful, and at times wry, examination considers not only why women are portrayed in these ways, but discusses the effect of those characterizations on the culture that consumes them.

Language: English

Pages: 194

Format: Paperback

Release: November 01, 2012

ISBN 13: 9781894987684

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