Violent women in cinema pose an exciting challenge to spectators, overturning ideas of 'typical' feminine subjectivity. This book explores the representation of

Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.

When Thelma and Louise outfought the men who had tormented them, women across America discovered what male fans of action movies have long known—the empowerin

This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of pr

In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence a