[eccr] CFP: Active Heroines

>Call For Papers
>
>Active Heroines: A Study Day
>Liverpool John Moores University
>14th February 2004
>
>Ten years ago an examination of active or violent female protagonists
>would have had scant material to draw upon.  In the last decade there has
>been both a proliferation of such figures in film and television fiction
>(Xena, Buffy, Sydney Bristow, Clarice Starling) and a proliferation of
>academic studies on active women (Tasker, Harte, Inness).  This study day
>is an opportunity to review the work now available and to widen the scope
>of this debate; to look at new subjects and different media.
>
>
>
>-Topics might include:
>-Female avatars in computer gaming
>-Girl heroes in comics
>-The pre-history of the femme fatale
>-Women in Hong-Kong action cinema
>-Feminism's violent women
>
>Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to Rosie White at
>
>(rosemary.white /at/ unn.ac.uk)
>
>or posted to
>Rosie White,
>School of Arts and Social Sciences,
>Lipman Building,
>Northumbria University,
>Sandyford Road,
>Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8ST,
>
>by 1st December 2003

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Carpentier Nico (Phd)
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