Renegade Sisters: Girl Gangs on Film (Creation Cinema Collection)
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (549 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1871592925 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Richly illustrated thoughout, Renegade Sisters examines the whole history of girl gangs on film, focusing on B-classics like Russ Meyer's "Faster, Pussycat!" "Kill! Kill!", Herschell Gordon Lewis' "She-Devils on Wheels", and Jack Hill's "Switchblade Sisters"; Women-in-Prison movies such as Stephanie Rothman's "Terminal Island" and Jack Hill's "Big Doll House" with Pam Grier; camp SF like "Cat Women of the Moon" and "Queen of Outer Space"; plus many other deviant displays of girl power from various genres, right through to Todd Morris and Deborah Twiss' ferocious, post-Tarantino "A Gun for Jennifer".. From boarding school to women's prison, biker packs to urban vigilantes, rampaging girl gangs have long been a staple feature of exploitation/ independe
-- The Guide. With details on catfights, cowgirls, biker women and the heavily armed Pam Grier, this has it all
Bev Zalcock is a film studies lecturer and film maker at St. . Martin's College and Birkbeck College, University of London