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Pretty/Violent: Cinematic Action Heroines From 2015 to 2020
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Monk, Ryan Michael
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1617382007581432
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2021, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture.
Abstract
Hollywood filmmakers have recently, and dramatically, changed their depictions of women in Action Movies in the Two-Thousand-Teens. There has been a dramatic disparity between images of violent men and violent women. However, filmmakers are now giving action heroines the same attention they gave to action heroes. This thesis examines Mad Max: Fury Road, Atomic Blonde, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman 1984, and Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn to make clear much of the progress, and one or two pitfalls, these films have presented audiences with, including the use of tropes that were previously, in terms of Hollywood major motion pictures, mostly only seen in male-led Action Movies.
Committee
Becca Cragin, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Esther Clinton, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Pages
69 p.
Subject Headings
Film Studies
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Womens Studies
Keywords
Film
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Action Movies
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Feminism
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Superheroes
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Heroines
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Superhero Movies
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Mad Max Fury Road
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Atomic Blonde
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Wonder Woman
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Harley Quinn
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Monk, R. M. (2021).
Pretty/Violent: Cinematic Action Heroines From 2015 to 2020
[Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1617382007581432
APA Style (7th edition)
Monk, Ryan.
Pretty/Violent: Cinematic Action Heroines From 2015 to 2020.
2021. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1617382007581432.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Monk, Ryan. "Pretty/Violent: Cinematic Action Heroines From 2015 to 2020." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1617382007581432
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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