
Eugenia Logie
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Relying on secondary sources and a primary source analysis of 85 war films released after the Gulf War in 1991, this paper argues that Hollywood’s portrayal of women in war films has evolved much more slowly than its real-life counterpart of women in the U.S. military. Although women received more screentime, in more diverse and significant roles, in the 1990s and over the last several years, Hollywood continues to underrepresent women in the war genre after decades of confining women to traditional roles such as nurses or love interests. Additionally, Hollywood’s portrayal of women in war films has not steadily developed, regressing during much of the 2000s even as women were participating in new and more numerous roles in real-life wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the success of female-led war films released since 2012, particularly several female-heavy dystopian war films, could signify a shift for the role of women within the genre, and potentially convince risk-averse Hollywood studios to support new projects focused on women in war.
Relying on secondary sources and a primary source analysis of 85 war films released after the Gulf War in 1991, this paper argues that Hollywood’s portrayal of women in war films has evolved much more slowly than its real-life counterpart of women in the U.S. military. Although women received more screentime, in more diverse and significant roles, in the 1990s and over the last several years, Hollywood continues to underrepresent women in the war genre after decades of confining women to traditional roles such as nurses or love interests. Additionally, Hollywood’s portrayal of women in war films has not steadily developed, regressing during much of the 2000s even as women were participating in new and more numerous roles in real-life wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the success of female-led war films released since 2012, particularly several female-heavy dystopian war films, could signify a shift for the role of women within the genre, and potentially convince risk-averse Hollywood studios to support new projects focused on women in war.