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Reel Knockouts : Violent Women in Film.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (292 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292798854
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reel KnockoutsDDC classification:
  • 791.43/652042
LOC classification:
  • PN1995
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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": Violent Women in the Hong Kong Kung Fu Film -- If Looks Could Kill: Power, Revenge, and Stripper Movies -- The Gun and the Badge: Hollywood and the Female Lawman -- Caged Heat: The (R)evolution of Women-in-Prison Films -- 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: Memory, Haunting, and Revenge in Dolores Claiborne -- Waiting to Set It Off: African American Women and the Sapphire Fixation -- The Gun-in-the-Handbag, a Critical Controversy, and a Primal Scene -- Action Heroines and Female Viewers: What Women Have to Say -- Imagined Violence/Queer Violence: Representations of Rage and Resistance -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- 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": Violent Women in the Hong Kong Kung Fu Film -- If Looks Could Kill: Power, Revenge, and Stripper Movies -- The Gun and the Badge: Hollywood and the Female Lawman -- Caged Heat: The (R)evolution of Women-in-Prison Films -- 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: Memory, Haunting, and Revenge in Dolores Claiborne -- Waiting to Set It Off: African American Women and the Sapphire Fixation -- The Gun-in-the-Handbag, a Critical Controversy, and a Primal Scene -- Action Heroines and Female Viewers: What Women Have to Say -- Imagined Violence/Queer Violence: Representations of Rage and Resistance -- About the Contributors -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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