Reel Knockouts : : Violent Women in Film /

Reel Knockouts : : Violent Women in Film / / ed. by Neal King, Martha McCaughey.

When Thelma and Louise outfought the men who had tormented them, women across America discovered what male fans of action movies have long known—the empowering rush of movie violence. Yet the duo's escapades also provoked censure across a wide range of viewers, from conservatives who felt threa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Arons, Wendy,
Brown, Jeffrey A.,
Dole, Carol M.,
Grindstaff, Laura,
Halberstam, Judith,
King, Neal,
Knobloch, Susan,
McCaughey, Martha,
Miller, Barbara L.,
Springer, Kimberly,
Vares, Tiina,
Walters, Suzanna Danuta,
HerausgeberIn:
King, Neal,
McCaughey, Martha,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2001
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (291 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • What’s a Mean Woman like You Doing in a Movie like This?
  • Part I: Genre Films
  • “If Her Stunning Beauty Doesn’t Bring You to Your Knees, Her Deadly Drop Kick Will”
  • If Looks Could Kill
  • The Gun and the Badge
  • Caged Heat
  • Sharon Stone’s (An)Aesthetic
  • Part II: New Bonds and New Communities
  • Sometimes Being a Bitch Is All a Woman Has to Hold On To
  • Waiting to Set It Off
  • The Gun-in-the-Handbag, a Critical Controversy, and a Primal Scene
  • Action Heroines and Female Viewers
  • Imagined Violence/Queer Violence
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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