{"product_id":"reel-knockouts-9780292752511","title":"Reel Knockouts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the first book-length study of violent women in movies, Reel Knockouts makes feminist sense of violent women in films from Hollywood to Hong Kong, from top-grossing to direct-to-video, and from cop-action movies to X-rated skin flicks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 debate. What 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e What's a Mean Woman like You Doing in a Movie like This? (Neal King and Martha McCaughey) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part I: Genre Films \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \"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) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e If Looks Could Kill: Power, Revenge, and Stripper Movies (Jeffrey A. Brown) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Gun and the Badge: Hollywood and the Female Lawman (Carol M. Dole) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Caged Heat: The (R)evolution of Women-in-Prison Films (Suzanna Danuta Walters) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sharon Stone's (An)Aesthetic (Susan Knobloch) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part II: New Bonds and New Communities \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sometimes Being a Bitch Is All a Woman Has to Hold On To: Memory, Haunting, and Revenge in \u003ci\u003eDolores Claiborne\u003c\/i\u003e (Laura Grindstaff) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Waiting to Set It Off: African American Women and the Sapphire Fixation (Kimberly Springer) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Gun-in-the-Handbag, a Critical Controversy, and a Primal Scene (Barbara L. Miller) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Action Heroines and Female Viewers: What Women Have to Say (Tiina Vares) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Imagined Violence\/Queer Violence: Representations of Rage and Resistance (Judith Halberstam) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e About the Contributors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400874762583,"sku":"9780292752511","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292752511.jpg?v=1730471808","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reel-knockouts-9780292752511","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}