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Action Heroines: Redefining Female Power by Almeja Sañudo is a document available to read on EtoBox.
1. The document discusses the difficulties that feminist film theorists have faced in analyzing "action heroines" - aggressive, heroic female protagonists in action films - within existing theoretical frameworks like psychoanalysis that rely on binary oppositions of active/passive. 2. It argues that action heroines confound these binaries by accessing both traditionally masculine and feminine abilities and emotions. They cannot be contained within theories that deny the possibility of active female subjec
- Author
- Almeja Sañudo
- Language
- EN