[{"key":"dc.contributor.author","value":"Steenberg, Lindsay Joan","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.accessioned","value":"2009-12-16T21:06:09Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.available","value":"2009-12-16T21:06:09Z","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.issued","value":"2005","language":null},{"key":"dc.identifier.uri","value":"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/16831","language":null},{"key":"dc.description.abstract","value":"The spectacle of sexuality and violence embodied on screen by the character of\r\nthe deadly woman has caused simultaneous and alternating fascination and alarm in\r\nspectators. While violent women have been represented in a large number of films since\r\nthe 1 970s, in recent years there has been a significant shift in their characterizations.\r\nRather than the vixens of sexploitation cinema or the muscular heroines of 1990s\r\nblockbusters, the contemporary action heroine is informed by the global popular\r\nimaginary and by postmodern genre hybridization. This thesis examines the transnational\r\nand hybrid nature of these texts by grouping together similar films based on the character\r\nof the professional female fighter - which I have titled, Hot Girl Kicking, in order to sum\r\nup her distinct combination of violence and the erotic.\r\nOver the course of the thesis, patterns of structure, functionality and spectacle\r\nemerge in Hot Girl Kicking films due to their postmodern emphasis on surface, fracture,\r\nand cross cultural genre hybridization, and their ultimate function: rupturing the systems\r\nwhich hold them. This thesis first examines the onscreen construction of the aggressive\r\nfemale body in contemporary U.S. action films, followed by the addition of stylized\r\nfighting inspired by Asian genres in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee 2000), and\r\nfinally the exaggerated self reflexive uses of genre and violence in Kill Bill Volumes 1 and\r\n2 (Tarantino 2003\/4). Widening the site of rupture from a preoccupation with the body\r\nof the heroine to the global stage highlights the emancipatory potential of cross cultural\r\nand genre hybridization. The proposed hybrid sub-genre of the Hot Girl Kicking\r\nrepresents news ways of blurring boundaries and challenging the ordering systems of\r\nclassical Hollywood film form, U.S. cultural imperialism, and patriarchy.","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.language.iso","value":"eng","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.publisher","value":"University of British Columbia","language":null},{"key":"dc.rights","value":"For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/terms_of_use.","language":null},{"key":"dc.title","value":"Hot girls kicking : violent women and genre hybridity in postmodern action cinema","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type","value":"Text","language":null},{"key":"dc.degree.name","value":"Master of Arts - MA","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.discipline","value":"Film Studies","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.grantor","value":"University of British Columbia","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.graduation","value":"2005-11","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type.text","value":"Thesis\/Dissertation","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"Arts, Faculty of","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"Theatre and Film, Department of","language":null},{"key":"dc.degree.campus","value":"UBCV","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.scholarlevel","value":"Graduate","language":"en"}]