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Who doesn’t love some good old-fashioned trope therapy? We’ve all seen these narrative archetypes reshaped and repackaged a thousand times, but some just stay fresh longer than others. We’ll still ...

The first episode of Anita Sarkeesian's video series on gaming: Tropes Vs. Women in Video Games, has been published to her Youtube channel. Damsel in Distress deals with the ubiquitous representation ...

I really enjoyed the first episode, Damsel in Distress part 1. It's quite funny in places, devastating in others (that sax music in Star Fox Adventures :scared, and displays both a long love of ...

"What if history were different?!" Amazon's Prime Video has revealed the official trailer for a series titled My Lady Jane, arriving for streaming in June this summer. It's yet another of these spins ...

CU Boulder sociology instructor Laura Patterson details how feminism is influencing female roles in horror films, expanding them far beyond the ‘damsel in distress’ trope Halloween may be over, but it ...

A clever and unexpected take on the “damsel in distress” trope, “Damsel” starring Millie Bobby Brown demolishes the cliché, albeit with some flaws. Elodie, played by Brown, is the first daughter of ...