As portrayals of heroic women gain ground in film, television, and other media, their depictions are breaking free of females as versions of male heroes or simp

Hollywood Divas, Indie Queens, and TV Heroines offers an entertaining and critical look at the representation of women in recent movies. Written in a refreshing

This book focuses on the emergence of female characters in typically male roles, particularly in the crime and prison drama genres. Contributors explore the rol

This volume offers a stimulating perspective on the status of representations of a new kind of female character who emerged on the scene on US television in the

This thought-provoking volume offers an overview of contemporary representations of prominent female characters as they appear in an array of moving-image narra