These films are perhaps not quite what is being sought. But at least the
female leads are not, more or less, waiting for something to happen and just
sitting pretty. I'm hoping there will be more suggestions. This query
underscores just how few films have been made about women discovering what
it means to Just Do It! or at least to explore reality and push at it's
edges.
The Hours (2002)
Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988)
Terminator, The (1984), et al
Alien (1979), et al
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Double vie de Véronique, La (1991)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Julia (1977)
Piano, The (1993)
Notti di Cabiria, Le (1957)
Ghost in the Shell (1998)
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Susanna Chandler
> _Carrie_
> _Thelma and Louise_
> _G.I. Jane_
>
> _I'll Cry Tomorrow_ (1955 film starring Susan Hayward about a performer
> who slowly succumbs to alcoholism and then kicks it.)
>
> _Boys Don't Cry_ (hey, it's about a girl.)
>
> _Ginger Snaps_ (Incredible Canadian horror film from 2001 I think, about
> two teenage sisters and one's becoming a woman and a werewolf and the
> same time. The tagline is "They don't call it the curse for nothing.")
>
>
>
> Sarah Barmak
> University of Toronto
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
> I would like to do some research into the field of 'female rites of
> passage' in films and would be very grateful for any pointers. I am
> particularly interested in the action/adventure genre and to find out
> whether, from a psychoanalytical point of view, the individual journeys
> for
> the hero and the heroine are (and should be) so very different.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Est
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