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The Modern Amazons

The Modern Amazons is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand The Modern Amazons rather than just read about it. In short: The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women On-Screen (ISBN 0-87910-327-2) is a non-fiction book documenting the evolution of the female action hero in cinema, television and pop-culture. The Modern Amazons was written by Dominique Mainon and James Ursini and published by Hal Leonard/Limelight Editions in 2006.

Key takeaways

The Modern Amazons belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect The Modern Amazons to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of The Modern Amazons from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women On-Screen (ISBN 0-87910-327-2) is a non-fiction book documenting the evolution of the female action hero in cinema, television and pop-culture. The Modern Amazons was written by Dominique Mainon and James Ursini and published by Hal Leonard/Limelight Editions in 2006.

Synopsis From Barbarella to Barb Wire, the book surveys public reception and interest in the "warrior-woman" and the Amazon archetype in media. The Modern Amazons is written from Mainon's perspective and balanced with academic analysis from James Ursini. The book explores representations of warrior women in film, television, and pop culture including:

Raquel Welch in the prehistoric adventure fantasy One Million Years B.C. (1966) Pam Grier in the blaxploitation genre (including films like Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Sheba, Baby) Lucy Lawless as Xena in Xena: Warrior Princess Lara Croft, as portrayed by Angelina Jolie, in the Tomb Raider series Ellen Ripley, as portrayed by Sigourney Weaver, in the Alien franchise Martial arts warriors,, as portrayed by Angela Mao (Enter the Dragon), Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and Cynthia Rothrock Sexploitation films, including the controversial Ilsa trilogy Women as vampire slayers, superheroes, and supervillains Assorted television, cartoon, comics, and video game characters Relevant trends, style, and trivia Ursini and Mainon also examine feminist readings and sapphic text and subtext in media such as: the Powerpuff Girls, Tank Girl, G.I. Jane, La Femme Nikita, Alien, Pippi Longstocking, Pepper from Police Woman, and Clarice in The Silence of the Lambs.

Reception According to reviewers, The Modern Amazons has "an authoritative style... free of pretension and stuffiness."

See also Cinema of Obsession: Erotic Fixation and Love Gone Wrong in the Movies

References

External links

Official Homepage Archived July 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Dominique Mainon's Web Site Baltimore City Paper Midwest Book Review Windy City Times Interview SirDotAlot Review Site

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with The Modern Amazons

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what The Modern Amazons claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to The Modern Amazons before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about The Modern Amazons ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of The Modern Amazons

In research: The Modern Amazons appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses The Modern Amazons in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: The Modern Amazons is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2006 English-language non-fiction books, 2006 non-fiction books, American non-fiction books, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for The Modern Amazons outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study The Modern Amazons in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what The Modern Amazons means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain The Modern Amazons out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is The Modern Amazons in simple terms?

Why does The Modern Amazons matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study The Modern Amazons?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on The Modern Amazons.