The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen documents the public\'s seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on television....

In terms of celebrity icons, few attained the highest levels of fame and controversy as rapidly as Mae West. Labeled a \\\"pornographer\\\" by censorship boards, she was also one of 1930s Hollywood\"s most lucrative box-office draws (causing Variety in 1933 to label the star \\\"as hot an issue as Hitler\\\")....