| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
ix, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Women in motion pictures.
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Women in motion pictures. |
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Violence in motion pictures.
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Violence in motion pictures. |
| Added Author |
McCaughey, Martha, 1966-
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King, Neal, 1963-
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| ISBN |
0292752512 paperback alkaline paper |
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0292752504 alkaline paper |
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