Renegade Sisters: New Edition: Girl Gangs on Film: New Edition (Creation Cinema Collection) [Paperback]

Bev Zalcock (Author)

Book Description

Series: Creation Cinema Collection | Publication Date: September 15, 2001

From boarding school to women's prison, biker packs to urban vigilantes, witches' covens to sex-crazed nuns, rampaging girl gangs have long been a staple of exploitation cinema. Renegade Sisters is the best-selling, ultimate illustrated guide to these untamed celluloid she-devils.

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This brand new, updated and expanded edition features additional chapters on Delinquent Nurses and Fang Gangs: Vampire Vixens, plus a report on the feisty feature film of Charlie's Angels, and an exclusive interview with Stephanie Rothman, director of girl-gang classics Student Nurses and Terminal Island.

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With details on catfights, cowgirls, biker women and the heavily armed Pam Grier, this has it all. -- The Guide --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Bev Zalcock is a film studies lecturer and film maker at St. Martin's College and Birkbeck College, University of London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Creation Books; 2nd edition (September 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1840680717
• ISBN-13: 978-1840680713
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,312,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Renegade Sisters: New Edition: Girl Gangs on Film: New Edition (Creation Cinema Collection) (Paperback)

Every thing you ever wanted to know about women coagulating in living monochrome is in this book. The book goes thru 100 years and many genres of what would be considered "Girl Gangs" on film.

Naturally, these are the finer films such as "Chopper Chicks in Zombietown". Then when you think it can sing no lower there are films as "Westside Story" (1961) and "Grease (1978)."
There is a table of contents as they try to separate the films into such groups as "Women in Prison" and "Girl's Schools." There is a comprehensive bibliography for those intrigued by this book. And despite the hundreds of film titles in the index there is still sufficient room between the stills to describe the finer points on what is the essence of girl gangs.
This book is part of a great series "Creation Cinema Collection" be sure to find the others such as "Fragments of Fear: an illustrated History of British Horror Films."