Few film-makers imagined Black women as a primary audience. This has changed over time.
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Thor: Love and Thunder takes another step forward in the representation of embodiment of female heroism and power, through Natalie Portman’s embodiment of The Mighty Thor.
Director Taika Waititi’s new Thor: Love and Thunder features a female superhero, but again struggles to transcend the stereotypes of a genre where the male fan base still decides the rules.
The Urdu-speaking powerhouse, Ms. Marvel, has destabilized stereotypes of Muslims and reinforced ideas about American exceptionalism.
The film’s release has been timed for IWD, but powerful female action heroes should now be an everyday matter for movie producers.
Miss Fury was the first female superhero written and drawn by a woman. The comic in which she featured was syndicated in 100 newspapers but her creator has largely been excluded from the pantheon of comic greats.
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Reader and Principal Lecturer in Media and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University
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Associate professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Part-time lecturer, Toronto Metropolitan University
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PhD Candidate, Deakin University
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Professor of English, Denison University
