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* ''The Action Heroine's Handbook'' by Jennifer Worick and Joe Borgenicht (2003) ISBN 1931686688, ISBN 978-1931686686 | * ''The Action Heroine's Handbook'' by Jennifer Worick and Joe Borgenicht (2003) ISBN 1931686688, ISBN 978-1931686686 | ||
* Angela Waldrop, [http://pages.emerson.edu/organizations/fas/latent_image/issues/2001-05/heroine.htm The Portrayal of the High Kicking Action Heroine: Across Space, Format, and Theories], ''Latent Image: A Student Journal of Film Criticism'' (Summer 2001) | * Angela Waldrop, [http://pages.emerson.edu/organizations/fas/latent_image/issues/2001-05/heroine.htm The Portrayal of the High Kicking Action Heroine: Across Space, Format, and Theories], ''Latent Image: A Student Journal of Film Criticism'' (Summer 2001) | ||
* [[Yvonne Tasker]]. ''Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema''. Routledge Press, London, NY. 1993. | |||
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This is a list of action heroines; female characters who play the leading or key roles in SF action adventure stories — usually film, TV, games, and comics. Action heroines are distinguished from superheroines: action heroines do not necessarily have superpowers, and superheroines are not necessarily action-oriented (although more often than not they are).
- Wonder Woman
- Buffy Summers (aka "Buffy the Vampire Slayer")
- Ellen Ripley in the Alien series
- Sarah Connor in the Terminator series
- Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates of the Caribbean series
- Lara Croft
- Xena in Xena: Warrior Princess
- Gabrielle in Xena: Warrior Princess
- Trinity in the Matrix series
- Storm (Ororo Munro in The X-Men
- Yu Shu-lien in the Crane-Iron series (including the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
- Jen Yu in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
- Emma Peel (in The Avengers")
- Max Guevara in "Dark Angel"
- Mace Mason in "Strange Days"
- Faith Lehane in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
- Kendra in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
- Jaime Sommers in "The Bionic Woman"
- Sydney Bristow in "Alias"
- Wu Yen in "Wu Yen" (aka "Chung Mo Yim")
- Catwoman
- Elektra
- River Tam in "Serenity"
- Zoe Alleyne in "Firefly" and "Serenity"
- Selene in "Underworld" and "Underworld: Evolution"
- Violet in "Ultraviolet"
- Alice in the "Resident Evil" films
... many many more
Further reading
- Action Heroine Blog-a-Thon, June 12, 2007, at "Film Experience Blog" (announcement)
- List of female superheroes
- The Action Heroine's Handbook by Jennifer Worick and Joe Borgenicht (2003) ISBN 1931686688, ISBN 978-1931686686
- Angela Waldrop, The Portrayal of the High Kicking Action Heroine: Across Space, Format, and Theories, Latent Image: A Student Journal of Film Criticism (Summer 2001)
- Yvonne Tasker. Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema. Routledge Press, London, NY. 1993.