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Reel knockouts : violent women in the movies /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McCaughey, Martha, 1966- (Editor ), King, Neal, 1963- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2001.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What's a mean woman like you doing in a movie like this? / Neal King and Martha McCaughey
  • "If her stunning beauty doesn't bring you to your knees, her deadly drop kick will": violent women in the Hong Kong Kung Fu film / Wendy Arons
  • If looks could kill: power, revenge, and stripper movies / Jeffrey A. Brown
  • The gun and the badge: Hollywood and the female lawman / Carol M. Dole
  • Caged heat: the (R)evolution of women-in-prison films / Suzanna Danuta Walters
  • Sharon Stone's (An)Aesthetic / Susan Knobloch
  • Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to: memory, haunting, and revenge in Dolores Claiborne / Laura Grindstaff
  • Waiting to set it off: African American women and the sapphire fixation / Kimberley Springer
  • The gun-in-the-handbag, a critical controversy, and a primal scene / Barbara L. Miller
  • Action heroines and female viewers: what women have to say / Tiina Vares
  • Imagined violence/queer violence: representations of rage and resistance / Judith Halberstam.