Angelina Jolie went from movie star to action star in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Angelina Jolie went from movie star to action star in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over time. If you told the average 2001 cinemagoer that Lara Croft: Tomb Raider would one day be an example of a “wow, they don’t make ’em like they used to” movie, they probably would have laughed you out of the theater. Despite its sky-high box office, th…