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Bechdel Test Movie List at bechdeltest.com (user-edited database) Bechdel Testing Comics blog at Tumblr (2011–2012) Bechdel Gamer blog (2012–2013) Women in Film Archived July 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, analysis tool for data from bechdeltest.com (Website defunct)
THR recently gave the 25 top-grossing films of 2016 the Bechdel-Wallace Test and the results are surprising.
The Bechdel test seeks to measure the gender representation within film and other fiction. The requirements of the Bechdel test [3] are that: A film must have at least two female characters (in some cases it is stipulated that these characters must be named and credited), That these characters have an on-screen conversation with each other,
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Even blockbuster movies that are considered to be more progressive fail this test, including The Avengers (2012), Avatar (2009), and Lord of The Rings (2001–2003). Although the Bechdel test is not an indication of whether or not women are properly represented in films, it brings attention to the gender inequality that exists in film and ...
Dykes to Watch Out For (sometimes DTWOF) was a weekly comic strip by Alison Bechdel.The strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called "as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) and Lisa Alther's Kinflicks (1976) were to an earlier one". [1]
Bechdel, Bechdel-Wallace: Alison Bechdel, Liz Wallace: Used as an indicator for the active presence of women in films and other fiction, and to call attention to gender inequality in fiction D Duess: Louisa Düss Projective test for young children. E Ebert: Roger Ebert
Alison Bechdel (/ ˈ b ɛ k d əl / BEK-dəl; [1] born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist. Originally known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For , she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home .