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Thelma & Louise (1990): Western Myth with Gender Change

Author : Sebastian Hoos
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638776352
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Thelma & Louise (1990): Western Myth with Gender Change written by Sebastian Hoos and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 1995 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, University of Tubingen (Department of American Studies, Faculty of English Philology), course: Hauptseminar "American West ", 24 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: University of Tübingen, Department for American Studies, HS: The American West Western Myth with gender change: Thelma & Louise (1990) von: Sebastian Hoos Abstract The scientific community widely agrees that no region on earth shaped as many contemporary myths as the American West. The number of definitions of what is meant by "the West" is close to the number of references made to it - in numerous fields. Only by looking at individual examples of western myth at work can we find ways to appoach the myth itself and its consequences. In this paper I want to illuminate the intellectual and cultural web that is worked into and created around the Hollywood-made motion picture "Thelma & Louise". Following a rather broad attempt I want to give a comprehensive overview over all the printed reactions and reviews of this piece of discourse beginning with a few "traditional Westerns" and a piece of generic criticism by a young female American film critic. Following that, the story of the movie will be recaptured, analyzed, and thereby, finally, interpreted. This paper is a revised and extended version of an earlier one presented to Prof. Jeff Bass at Baylor University, Texas, USA. Thanks to the excellent facilities and up to date media access of Moody Memorial Library on Baylor University campus I am apt to say that all relevant publications about this movie have been elaborated in my work. New insight about the recipience and interpretation of the western myth made me rewrite this paper specifically for a course on the American West. Directory of content p. 3 Introduction p. 4 Chapter I: Recent Western Film Reviews p. 5 Chapter II: Generic Criticism p. 8 Chapter I

Thelma & Louise Live!

Author : Bernie Cook
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292782500
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Thelma & Louise Live! written by Bernie Cook and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When they floored their Thunderbird off a cliff rather than surrender to the law, Thelma and Louise became icons of female rebellion, provoking strong reactions from viewers who felt either empowered or outraged by the duo's transgressions of women's traditional roles. The 1991 film quickly became—and continues to be—a potent cultural reference point, even inspiring a bumper sticker that declares, "Thelma & Louise Live!" In this insightful study of Thelma & Louise, six noted film scholars investigate the initial reception and ongoing impact of this landmark film. The writers consider Thelma & Louise from a variety of perspectives, turning attention to the film's promotion and audience response over time; to theories of comedy and the role of laughter in the film; to the film's soundtrack and score; to the performances of stars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis; to the emergence of Brad Pitt as a star and male sex object; and to the film's place in the history of road and crime film genres. Complementing the scholarly analysis is an in-depth interview of screenwriter Callie Khouri by editor Bernie Cook, as well as reviews of Thelma & Louise that appeared in U.S. News & World Report and Time. Offering myriad new ways of understanding the complex interrelations of gender, identity, and violence, Thelma & Louise Live! attests to the ongoing life and still-evolving meanings of this now-classic film.

America, History and Life

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America, History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.

Maiden USA

Author : Kathleen Sweeney
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820481975
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Maiden USA written by Kathleen Sweeney and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age explores images of powerful, contradictory pop culture icons of the past decade, which run the gamut from Mean Girls and their Endangered Victims to Superheroines and Ingenue Goddesses. Are girls of the Title IX generation in need of Internet protection, or are they Supergirls evolving beyond gender stereotypes to rescue us all? Maiden USA provides an overview of girl trends since the '90s including the emergence of girls' digital media-making and self-representation venues on MySpace, Facebook and YouTube as the newest wave of Girl Power.

Gender Roles

Author : Linda L. Lindsey
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Gender Roles written by Linda L. Lindsey and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2005 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4th edition ofGender Rolesprovides the best balance between “gender” and “women” as a focus—especially with the expanded content on men and masculinity. It addresses religion and integrates history at various points. An objective of the book is to dispel myths about gender. Both sociological and interdisciplinary content organized around clear and appropriate research serves this objective well—providing readers with a sociological perspective of gender that can be meaningfully applied to their daily lives.The more controversial topics related to gender have a greater array of supporting references directing readers to explore the topics further.Gender Rolesintegrates insights and research from other disciplines—especially biology, psychology, anthropology, and history. Interdisciplinary material is organized, presented, and guided by the sociological perspective, however, so readers can understand the commonalities and differences in the ways the various disciplines research and explain gender.An exciting and interesting read for anyone interested in gender roles and sexual identity.

Abuses and Allotments. The setting of Louise Erdrich’s "Tracks" and its importance

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Author : Mark Schauer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656464138
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Abuses and Allotments. The setting of Louise Erdrich’s "Tracks" and its importance written by Mark Schauer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: A, Northern Arizona University, language: English, abstract: The preponderance of evidence shows that the setting of Louise Erdrich's Tracks, as well as its chronological sequels Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace strongly resembles the Turtle Mountain Reservation in the north central part of the state and Erdrich’s hometown of Wahpeton, in the southeast on the Minnesota border. Nonetheless, much has been made of the similarity of the fate of the Ojibwe characters in Tracks with the historical outrage perpetrated against the White Earth Anishinaabeg from the signing of the Dawes Act in 1887 to the nadir of Native American wellbeing in the early 1920s. In 1988, the same year Tracks was published, Erdrich co-wrote with her then-husband Michael Dorris an expose of this travesty that was published in The New York Times Magazine, which added to speculation that the politicized novel was a thinly veiled account of White Earth. Lost in the rush to place Tracks in Minnesota, however, was the fact that the historical Turtle Mountain Ojibwe in North Dakota experienced just as egregious a theft of timber-rich tribal land, both prior and subsequent to the Dawes Act, and in some ways served as the textbook example for the fraud committed at White Earth.

The Road Movie Book

Author : Steven Cohan
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415149372
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book The Road Movie Book written by Steven Cohan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of this enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre and its legacy to world cinema beyond the United States.

Choice Reviews in Women's Studies, 1990-96

Author : Association of College and Research Libraries
Publisher : Association of College & Research Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Choice Reviews in Women's Studies, 1990-96 written by Association of College and Research Libraries and published by Association of College & Research Libraries. This book was released on 1997 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of reviews, that appeared in CHOICE magazine, of over 2,000 women's studies titles. Arranged alphabetically by subject matter, using the editor's classifications, each entry reprints the text of the original review, gives bibliographic data and indicates readership level.

The Self-Made Man: Myth and Reality of an American Phenomenon

Author : Kira Kogan
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656476039
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book The Self-Made Man: Myth and Reality of an American Phenomenon written by Kira Kogan and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Auslandswissenschaft), course: Hauptseminar: “Who are the Americans? Politics, Business and Culture from New York to California”, language: English, abstract: In the first part of this essay I will contemplate the historical development of the concept of American individualism through the centuries, which created a contextual background for the establishment of a self-made man idea in the minds of Americans. In addition there will be given the biographical examples of self-made men that became a pattern for all the successors in American history. Furthermore I would like to make an overview of the various aspects of self-made man philosophy, which includes the discussion of its positive and negative sides and its influences on personality and society in general. Finally I will debate the ways of realisation of the self-made man idea nowadays and weigh the existing perspectives in the individualistic and contradictory world of now.

Sight and Sound

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Sight and Sound written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Arts & Humanities Citation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Road Movie Book

Author : Steven Cohan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113482436X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Road Movie Book written by Steven Cohan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its legacy to world cinema. The road and the cinema both flourished in the twentieth century, as technological advances brought motion pictures to a mass audience and the mass produced automobile opened up the road to the ordinary American. When Jean Baudrillard equated modern American culture with 'space, speed, cinema, technology' he could just as easily have added that the road movie is its supreme emblem. The contributors explore how the road movie has confronted and represented issues of nationhood, sexuality, gender, class and race. They map the generic terrain of the road movie, trace its evolution on American television as well as on the big screen from the 1930s through the 1980s, and, finally, consider road movies that go off the road, departing from the US landscape or travelling on the margins of contemporary American culture. Movies discussed include: * Road classics such as It Happened One Night, The Grapes of Wrath, The Wizard of Oz and the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby Road to films * 1960's reworkings of the road movie in Easy Rider and Bonnie and Clyde * Russ Meyer's road movies: from Motorpsycho! to Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! * Contemporary hits such as Paris Texas, Rain Man, Natural Born Killers and Thelma and Louise * The road movie, Australian style, from Mad Max to the Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

The New Avengers

Author : Jacinda Read
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719059056
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The New Avengers written by Jacinda Read and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacinda Read studies the rape-revenge film, and suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the shape of heterosexual femininity in the post-1970 period.

The Gender Knot

Author : Johnson
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131711019
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Gender Knot written by Johnson and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Female Masculinity

Author : Judith Halberstam
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822322436
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Female Masculinity written by Judith Halberstam and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances. Through detailed textual readings as well as empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. She rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity. She considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities. She also explores issues of transsexuality among "transgender dykes"--lesbians who pass as men--and female-to-male transsexuals who may find the label of "lesbian" a temporary refuge. Halberstam also tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators. Female Masculinity signals a new understanding of masculine behaviors and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs, including portraits, film stills, and drag king performance shots, this book provides an extensive record of the wide range of female masculinities. And as Halberstam clearly demonstrates, female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders.

In the Company of Women

Author : Karen Hollinger
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452903545
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book In the Company of Women written by Karen Hollinger and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Desperately Seeking Susan, Steel Magnolias, and Thelma & Louise to Desert Hearts, Girl Friends, and Passion Fish, mainstream cinema has seen a wave of films focusing on friendships between women. In tire Company of Women is the first critical work to investigate the recent resurgence of this variety of the "woman's film". Examining the female friendship film since the 1970s and setting it against older films of the 1930s and 1940s, such as Mildred Pierce and Stella Dallas, Karen Hollinger studies the character of the films themselves and how they speak to female viewers. She argues that while many of these films initially seem to affirm the power of female friendship and reject traditional images of women, most of them ultimately fall back on conventional feminine roles. Hollinger argues that the female friendship film, by attempting to assimilate into the mainstream, uses ideas from the women's movement, like female autonomy and sisterhood, that are particularly susceptible to compromise. It is this blend of empowering and conservative elements that makes the female friendship film neither a true challenge to the status quo nor a mere confirmation of dominant ideology but rather a multifaceted cinematic form that reflects both of these strains. Hollinger considers all of the major issues in feminist film criticism -- from audience reception to the identification with characters, from sexuality to racial identity. Engaging and provocative, In the Company of Women is an entertaining and enlightening account of one of contemporary cinema's most vital genres.

Machines of Youth

Author : Gary S. Cross
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634178X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Machines of Youth written by Gary S. Cross and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For American teenagers, getting a driver’s license has long been a watershed moment, separating teens from their childish pasts as they accelerate toward the sweet, sweet freedom of their futures. With driver’s license in hand, teens are on the road to buying and driving(and maybe even crashing) their first car, a machine which is home to many a teenage ritual—being picked up for a first date, “parking” at a scenic overlook, or blasting the radio with a gaggle of friends in tow. So important is this car ride into adulthood that automobile culture has become a stand-in, a shortcut to what millions of Americans remember about their coming of age. Machines of Youth traces the rise, and more recently the fall, of car culture among American teens. In this book, Gary S. Cross details how an automobile obsession drove teen peer culture from the 1920s to the 1980s, seducing budding adults with privacy, freedom, mobility, and spontaneity. Cross shows how the automobile redefined relationships between parents and teenage children, becoming a rite of passage, producing new courtship rituals, and fueling the growth of numerous car subcultures. Yet for teenagers today the lure of the automobile as a transition to adulthood is in decline.Tinkerers are now sidelined by the advent of digital engine technology and premolded body construction, while the attention of teenagers has been captured by iPhones, video games, and other digital technology. And adults have become less tolerant of teens on the road, restricting both cruising and access to drivers’ licenses. Cars are certainly not going out of style, Cross acknowledges, but how upcoming generations use them may be changing. He finds that while vibrant enthusiasm for them lives on, cars may no longer be at the center of how American youth define themselves. But, for generations of Americans, the modern teen experience was inextricably linked to this particularly American icon.