Violent Female Action Characters in Contemporary American Cinema.
This research is a content analysis of violent female action characters (“VFAC”) shown in American action films from 1991 through 2005. The analysis focused on three aspects of VFACs: (1) gender stereotypes, (2) demographics, and (3) quantity and type of violence. Findings showed that 58.6% of VFACs...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 62; no. 11-12; pp. 734 - 747 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2010
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