From 'figurative males' to action heroines: Further thoughts on active women in the cinema

Screen

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 38-50

  Hills, Elizabeth ^a  

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EID: 22544474132     PISSN: 00369543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/screen/40.1.38     Document Type: Review

References (25)

1. 'Action heroine' is Yvonne Tasker's term. See Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and Action Cinema, (London: Routledge, 1993)
2. Carol Clover, Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (London: British Film Institute, 1992)
3. Thomas Schatz, 'The new Hollywood', in J. Collins, H. Radner and A. Preacher Collins (eds), Film Theory Goes to the Movies (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 8-36
4. C. Elkins, 'Symposium on Alien'. Science Fiction Studies, vol. 7, no. 3 (1980), pp. 275-97
5. Barbara Creed, 'Horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection', Screen, vol. 28, no. 2 (1986). pp. 47-67
6. In this sense, the film uses an important narrative convention of the slasher film, that is the figure of Ripley as 'final girl'. Like the slasher film, much of the confusion and anxiety generated in Alien comes from the absence of clear central characters. See Clover, Men, Women and Chainsaws
7. Rebecca Bell-Mertereau, 'Women: the other alien in Alien', in Jane B. Weedman (ed.), Women Worldwalkers: New Dimensions in SF and Fantasy (Luddock: Texas Tech Press. 1985), p. 10
8. Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: the Movement-Image, trans. H Tomlinson and R. Galeta (London: The Athlone Press, 1986), pp. 205-15
9. Judith Newton, 'Feminism and anxiety in Alien', in Annette Kuhn (ed.), Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema (London: Verso, 1990), pp. 82-90. p. 82
10. Ros Jennings. 'Desire and design: Ripley undressed', in Tamsin Wilton (ed.), Immortal/Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image (London: Routledge, 1995), p. 197
11. Tasker, Spectacular Bodies
12. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), pp. 424-73
13. Elizabeth Grosz, 'A thousand tiny sexes: feminism and rhizomatics', in C. Boundas and D. Olkowski (eds), Gilles Deleuze and the Theatre of Philiosophy (New York: Routledge, 1994). p. 194
14. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, pp. 232-309
15. Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Feminism (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1994)
16. Barbara Creed, The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (London: Routledge, 1993)
17. Barbara Creed, 'From here to modernity: feminism and postmodernism', Screen, vol. 28, no. 2 (1987), pp. 47-67
18. Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), p. 169
19. Paula Graham, 'Looking lesbian: amazons and aliens in science fiction cinema', in B. Budge and D. Hammer (eds), The Good, the Bad and the Gorgeous: Popular Culture's Romance with Lesbianism (London: Pandora, 1994), p. 202
20. Creed, The Monstrous-Feminine
21. Graham, 'Looking lesbian', p. 202
22. Brian Massumi, A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattri (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), pp. 92-41
23. Massumi, A User's Guide, p. 100
24. Laleen Jayamanne, cited in A. Blonski, B. Creed and F. Freiberg, Don't Shoot Darling! Women's Independent Filmmaking in Australia (Richmond: Greenhouse Publications, 1987) p. 380
25. Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects, p. 208