I know there's a whole big hoo ha of "there's no such thing as grunge!" "Generation X never happened!" and classifications and genres and yappity yap..but ignore that for a moment, and thake the listed films out of whatever context you viewed them in etc.
Would most people agree that many films of the time
ie - clerks, chasing amy, fight club, singles, the novel generation X may well have had a sort of conventional 'femme fatale',
clerks - Caitlin Bree
chasing amy - Alyssa
Fight club - Marla etc etc yadi yadah

but the overall representation of leading female roles in general were moving away from stereotypes of big tits, blonde and no brains? Or at least portraying more idiosyncracies? (sp, i know)
..this hasn't been researched very well. I only listed those texts above as I think I know those best but yeha. They generally escape the hollywoodism of boy meets girl, gets married ideologies I think. Or at least remain some what intangable throughout and in the resolution.

anyway, anyone got any idea what I'm talking about?
I'm particularly interested in speaking to ANYONE who's read (not necessarily enjoyed nor a huge fan of) Douglas Coupland.