| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Reel knockouts/ edited by Martha McCaughey and Neal King. |
| Reminder of title: |
violent women in the movies / |
| other author: |
King, Neal, |
| Published: |
Austin, TX :University of Texas Press, : 2001., |
| Description: |
ix, 279 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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: |
Violence in motion pictures. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=112038An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0292798857 (electronic bk.) |