significant female presence – The Tory Party https://www.toryhoke.com Comics, essays, art, and heckling Sun, 21 Jan 2018 07:16:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1 75387560 The Bechdel Test Revisited: Women in a Hero’s Journey https://www.toryhoke.com/2014/09/12/bechdel-test-revisited-women-heros-journey/ Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:00:16 +0000 https://www.toryhoke.com/?p=8234 This article first appeared as Luna Station Quarterly’s Chick on the Draw column, September 5, 2014 There are three reasons Alison Bechdel’s famous test–one canny gag in an indie comic strip from 1985–has been embraced by entertainment critics, theorists, and journalists as the gold standard for determining whether a film has, Feminist Frequency describes it,… Continue reading The Bechdel Test Revisited: Women in a Hero’s Journey

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