With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

Directing action can seem like a man’s game. That’s in part because for years female directors struggled to get any opportunities, much less genre opportunities. We still talk about Ida Lupino because ...

"With this, we were very aware that eyes were on us. It’s not a risk that studios want to take, but they’ll take it many times on the same guy who might have a string of action movies that did not do ...

The Bechdel test is a simple way to see how women are shown in film and TV. To pass, a movie or show needs at least two named female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man.

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

Connie Nielsen is speaking out about how much has changed for women in action movies. While doing press for her new film Nobody 2, the actress reflected on both the history of the genre and the place ...

'70s Week: The '70s saw women kicking ass like never before — two of them cut an especially spectacular trail that bleeds a clear path through the last 50 years of action movies. Women have been ...

The 1980s marked a turning point in the evolution of action cinema. It was a decade when blockbuster spectacle collided with new filmmaking styles, producing insane stunts and set pieces, as well as ...