Reel Knockouts by Martha Mccaughey
Features a study of violent women in movies. This book makes feminist sense of violent women in films from Hollywood to Hong Kong, and from cop-action movies to X-rated skin flicks. It analyses violent women's respective places in the history of cinema, in the lives of viewers, and in the feminist response to male violence against women.
"Too violent? Too sexy? Too passive? Too tough? The first book-length treatment of violent women in the movies, Reel Knockouts aims to provoke engagement and launch debateWhat do women want these days? Who wants violent women? How? Why? From Hong Kong to Hollywood, contributors track criminals and tail cops, scrutinising the mixed messages proffered by noir, horror, action, activist, and even porn pix in light of contemporary concerns with violence and the representation of violence. Throughout, political passions prime interdisciplinary insights: beware the Jesse Helms of America! Violent women = unnatural power and/or unruly sex? HA! A 'wanna' read." -Christine Holmlund, Associate Professor of French, Film, and Women's Studies and Head of Cinema Studies, University of Tennessee "Trumpeting itself as the first book-length treatment of violent women in the movies, this anthology has ass-kicking pretensions of its own, declaring its intent to slap down the girls-with-guns gauntlet in front of feminists and film theorists alike... the editors' tough-talking challenge to readers to take the screen's mean heroines seriously as pop-cultural players is laudable ..." Sight and Sound
Martha McCaughey, author of Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense, is Associate Professor and Director of Women’s Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University. Neal King, author of Heroes in Hard Times: Cop Action Movies in the U.S. is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Belmont University in Nashville.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780292752511 |
| ISBN 10 | 0292752512 |
| Title | Reel Knockouts |
| Author | Martha Mccaughey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Texas Press |
| Year published | 2001-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 291 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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