Critical investigation research

Newspaper website-

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/11/mans-celluloid-world-study-finds-women-under-represented-film

http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/dec/12/female-action-heroes-katniss-role-models-women

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/apr/27/2

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/mar/03/horror-films-women-protagonists-the-resident

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/mar/08/daring-women-s-heroines

Relevant articles-

 http://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthaettus/2011/10/21/25-alarm-bells-for-women-sounds-from-miss-representation/

http://www.wmm.com/resources/film_facts.shtml

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=44913

http://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/research.html

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/08/wonder-woman-female-superhero-movies-week-in-geek 

http://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/files/2013_It's_a_Man's_World_Report.pdf 

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/824016/ 

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/study-female-characters-under-represented-in-movies-1201129236/ 

http://www.businessinsider.com/female-protagonists-lacking-in-2013s-top-films-2014-3?IR=T

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11026415/Women-in-film-no-improvement-since-the-1950s.html 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/03/27/mpaa_2013_numbers_women_buy_half_of_all_movie_tickets_but_that_won_t_mean.html

From Google Scholar-   

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1129444?uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104720029777 

Books- 

The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins

Wicked By Gregory Maguire 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo By Stieg Larsson

Cinema studies- the key concepts, second edition - By Susan Hayward

Women and film, both sides of the camera- By E.Ann Kaplan

Names of PDF files-
Are female action heroes risky role models? pdf
Women in film pdf
The ageing women in popular film pdf
Portrayals of age and gender in popular film pdf