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Gender and Genre in 1990s Hollywood: Challenging Definitions of Sex, Women, and Femininity

By Patricia Di Risio, Claire Nally (Editor), Angela Smith (Editor)
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By Patricia Di Risio, Claire Nally (Editor), Angela Smith (Editor)
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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. Patricia Di Risio argues 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.

Di Risio analyses seven key films from the decade, including Blue Steel (1990), Thelma & Louise (1991), The Quick and th...

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