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Book SynopsisThelma & Louise, the 1991 film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, has been described as a road movie, a buddy movie, a feminist parable, and only incidentally as a Western. In this volume, Susan Kollin recreates this watershed moment for women’s movies in general and women’s Westerns in particular.
Trade ReviewSusan Kollin's use of the Western genre to reexamine
Thelma & Louise is timely, relevant, and very welcome. Kollin has crafted a very thoughtful analysis that resists easy answers and allows the film's full complexity to shine through, leading to even deeper conversations and new questions."—Cynthia Miller, author of
The Encylopedia of B Westerns"Kollin's crucial innovation (in
Thelma & Louise) is to move us beyond considerations of how the genre alludes to conventions of Western fiction to a much more sophisticated analysis in which the Western emerges as the key to understanding not only the film itself, but why it so resonated, and continues to resonate, with audiences."—Andrew Patrick Nelson, author of
Still in the Saddle: The Hollywood Western, 1969-1980Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Gender, Sexuality, and the Western
- Chapter Two. "A Love Letter to the West"
- Chapter Three. "We're Fugitives Now": Women, Guns, and Violence
- Conclusion. Beyond the Abyss
- Notes
- Bibliography
