Reel knockouts : violent women in the movies / edited by Martha McCaughey and Neal King.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	McCaughey, Martha, 1966- (Editor), King, Neal, 1963- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2001.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Börngen, ... Bibel > Philemonbrief Women in motion pictures. Violence in motion pictures. PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference. PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General. Violence in motion pictures Women in motion pictures Gewalt Aggressivität Film Frau
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Table of Contents:

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.

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