Gender and genre in 1990s Hollywood : challenging definitions of sex, women, and femininity / by Patricia Di Risio.

Author
Di Risio, Patricia (College teacher) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Description
xi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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"The 1990s was a decade of significant turmoil in Hollywood cinema, which resulted in a watershed moment in the interplay of gender and genre. In this book, Patricia Di Risio identifies underexplored debates in queer theory and politics during the period, arguing that cinematic representations of unconventional women had an important effect on traditionally male oriented genres, such as the crime thriller, road movie, western, film noir, war film, sci-fi, and horror"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Police drama-Blue steel (Kathryn Bigelow 1990)
  • Road movie-Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott 1991)
  • The western-The quick and the dead (Sam Raimi 1995)
  • Neo noir-Bound (Lilly & Lana Wachowski 1996)
  • The war film-G.I. Jane (Ridley Scott 1997)
  • Crime thriller-Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino 1997)
  • Sci-fi/horror-Alien: resurrection (Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1997)
  • Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9781350292833 ((hardback))
  • 1350292834
  • 9781350292871 ((paperback))
  • 1350292877
LCCN
2024019537
OCLC
1430496628
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