Written and compiled by Nicola Clarke, Stephen Gordon, Louise Johnston, Ayesha Khan, Emma Smart, José de Esteban and Wendy Thomas
Not since the film noirs and melodramas of the forties and fifties have there been so many strong roles for women to play on both the big and small screens. One only has to pick up a television guide to find a series named after its female protagonist (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) or where the female character is on equal footing with the male lead (The X-Files). And there has been a recent influx of big screen outings that has shown the cinema-going public that women can play just as hard as the men, in films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. This annotated reference guide will point you in the right direction in your research of strong women of the 1990s in both cinema and television. This guide includes books, articles, and essays that all try to explain the emergence of the strong woman in our society, in a wide range of films and television shows.
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