Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, was "flawless, and unique," in her estimation, but she otherwise has few contemporary style heroines.
Seasonal trends are mostly ignored and, instead, the references are to Moss's own wardrobe and personal style heroines.
Shailene Woodley (George Clooney's daughter in The Descendants) shows plenty of gumption as Tris Prior, the Hunger Games-style heroine.
The woman's blond hair spills out of the frame; she could be a Hitchcock-style heroine in a noir-film still.
Rather than a pro cyber-criminal, Blackman's E Nesbit-style heroine is 13-year-old Vicky, who hacks into a bank's computer system to find out why it sacked her dad and accused him of embezzling a seven-figure sum.
Most are scenes adapted from film stills, and in them theater and life seem to blur as Ms. Taylor alternates in the roles of dominatrix-style heroine and abject victim, breaking through a veneer of Hollywood grooming to wear her sexuality and her scars right up front.
Apart from Sigourney Weaver's singular Ellen Ripley in the stereotype-shattering Alien quartet – the older soul sister to Katniss in what Jacobson calls "feminine ferocity"– there aren't many saga-style heroines around who show their emotional wounds quite as openly.
I wasn't... What a jerk, yeah" – established her as a new style of heroine, touching, silly and an antidote to the polished heroines of a previous generation.
Samuel Beckett's great play of dogged endurance amid diminishing returns is 50 this year – "to speak in the old style", as heroine Winnie reminds herself whenever mentioning time, or death.
You can be an absolute genius at acting, and it still doesn't mean you know anything.' Foster puts down her happy reincarnation as a Sigourney Weaver-style action heroine to a desire to work less, but more lucratively and to spend more time at home with her children and, presumably, Cydney, whom she met on the set of Sommersby in 1993.
