The Hunger Game is one of the most popular young adult novel series rivaling Harry Potter and Twilight. As the first of its film adaptations was just released in March 2012, readers and audiences have been pleasantly surprised at this fresh, dynamic, young female protagonist. In the second of my two part series on The Hunger […]
Category: Movies
It’s been a few years since I’ve checked in with The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies so I thought it would be a good time to look in on Hollywood and see if there’s been any substantial improvement in women’s representations on the big screen. In this updated video, I go through the 2011 films […]
February 15th, 2012
Tagged: Academy Awards, Allison Bechdel, Bechdel Test, Bechdel Test for People of Color, Dykes to Watch Out For, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Films, Gender, Hollywood, Hugo, Midnight in Paris, Money Ball, Movies, Oscars, Reverse Bechdel Test, The Artist, The Descendants, The Help, Tree of Life, Tropes, True Grit
This is the fourth of a six part series created for Bitch Magazine. Tropes vs. Women explores the reoccurring stories, themes and representations of women in Hollywood films and TV shows. The Evil Demon Seductress is a supernatural creature usually a demon, alien, robot, vampire etc. who is most often disguised as a sexy human female. […]
May 19th, 2011
This is the third of a six part series created for Bitch Magazine. Tropes vs. Women explores the reoccurring stories, themes and representations of women in Hollywood films and TV shows. The Smurfette Principle was named two decades ago by Katha Pollitt, when she noticed that there were a disproportionate amount of male characters in programming […]
April 21st, 2011
As soon as I saw the trailer for Sucker Punch I correctly guessed that it would be another adolescent boy fantasy masquerading as a pseudo-female-empowerment film. What I was surprised about however was how the mainstream media and the blog-o-sphere called Zach Snyder out on his disaster of a movie. Check out some of these excellent […]
April 4th, 2011
This is the first of a six part series created for Bitch Magazine. Tropes vs. Women explores the reoccurring stories, themes and representations of women in Hollywood films and TV shows. The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is a cute, bubbly, young (usually white) woman who has recently entered the life of our brooding hero to teach […]
March 24th, 2011
Tagged: (500) Days of Summer, Almost Famous, Autumn in New York, Charlize Theron, Elisha Cuthbert, Elizabethtown, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Hollywood, Joe Versus the Volcano, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kate Hudson, Kirsten Dunst, Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Meg Ryan, Movies, My Sassy Girl, Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson, Sweet November, the Last Kiss, Tropes, Tropes vs Women, TV Tropes, Winona Ryder, Zach Braff, Zooey Deschanel
Mattie Ross is the star of the award winning film True Grit. She is a remarkable character being cast as a strong, tough, independent, and determined young woman. While I think Mattie’s character is (unfortunately) rare in major Hollywood films, many people have been quick to call her a feminist character… I have a slightly different […]
March 9th, 2011
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