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050 00 $aPN1995.9.W6$bR454 2001
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245 00 $aReel knockouts :$bviolent women in the movies /$cedited by Martha McCaughey and Neal King.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aAustin, TX :$bUniversity of Texas Press,$c2001.
300 $aix, 279 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aWhat'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.
650 0 $aWomen in motion pictures.
650 0 $aViolence in motion pictures.
700 1 $aMcCaughey, Martha,$d1966-
700 1 $aKing, Neal,$d1963-
994 $aE0$bXIM