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Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
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Description for Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine
Paperback. Translator(s): Bonfiglio, Dominic J. Series: Electronic Mediations. Num Pages: 128 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; JFSJ1; UYV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 180 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
Since the game Tomb Raider was first released in 1996, its protagonist Lara Croft has become an international celebrity. The virtual archaeologist-adventuress has been featured in various sequels to the original game, a line of action figures, two Hollywood films starring Angelina Jolie, forty comic books, a series of novels, and a variety of clothing, merchandise, and ephemera. She has appeared on the covers of Time and Newsweek, spawned innumerable Internet fan sites and a library of adulatory fan fiction, become a pornographic sex symbol, and even inspired a look-alike beauty pageant. Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky's groundbreaking study examines Lara Croft as ... Read more
Since the game Tomb Raider was first released in 1996, its protagonist Lara Croft has become an international celebrity. The virtual archaeologist-adventuress has been featured in various sequels to the original game, a line of action figures, two Hollywood films starring Angelina Jolie, forty comic books, a series of novels, and a variety of clothing, merchandise, and ephemera. She has appeared on the covers of Time and Newsweek, spawned innumerable Internet fan sites and a library of adulatory fan fiction, become a pornographic sex symbol, and even inspired a look-alike beauty pageant. Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky's groundbreaking study examines Lara Croft as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Electronic Mediations
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816643912
SKU
V9780816643912
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About Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky is professor of media studies at Ruhr University Bochum.Dominic J. Bonfiglio is a freelance translator living in Berlin.Sue-Ellen Case is professor of critical studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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