Rikke Schubart is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. Her research focuses on gender, genre, and emotions in cinema and media. Schubart's publications include "Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror "(forthcoming), "Eastwood's Iwo Jima" (2013), and "Super Bitches and Action Babes: The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970-2006 "(2007).