“…Although numerous studies have addressed the ways in which still images construe representations of reality in systemic-functional and/or socio-semiotic terms (Bezerra, Nascimento and Heberle 2010;Bouvier 2018;Chen and Machin 2014;Kerry 2016; among many others), there is considerably more to be achieved in terms of theoretical and methodological consistency as far as dynamic 5 images are concerned. Aiming to add to important contributions worldwide (Bateman 2009;Bezerra 2012Bezerra , 2016Böhlke 2008;Iedema 2001;Lima-Lopes 2016;O'Halloran 2004;Tseng 2009;van Leeuwen 1996), this paper, adopting a combined systemic-functional (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2004;Martin 1992) and socio-semiotic approach (van Leeuwen 2008), proposes to reveal how the representations of women in the fi lm SATC 5. Dynamic multimodal texts are "fi lm and video texts which display different and constantly varying confi gurations of sound, image, gesture, text and language as the text unfolds in time" (O'Halloran 2004:110). either expand or limit the domains of action in which they can operate.…”