The blog Megatrouble has an interesting draft of an essay looking into gender portrayal in the new Battlestar Galactica, specifically focussing on the character of Starbuck, relating it to the Action Heroine, a figure many academics in media studies attribute to SF and Horror (Sarah Conner in Terminator, Ripley in Aliens, the Final Girl in a slew of Slasher flicks) and a figure often held up to show that the genre can be a positive one for its portrayal of women (as opposed to the stereotype view that all SF and comics show women simply as sexual objects for the Male Gaze).
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