Engelbrecht, Janine(University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2020)
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, female characters that are different from the
sexualised and passive women of the 1960s started appearing in science fiction
film and television. Three prominent women on screen that ...
Over the past decade, powerful mothers in cinema have reappeared in the fantasy genre in the form of “witches”. Some witches’ stories, such as that of Maleficent (the wicked witch from the classic fairy tale Sleeping ...
