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

Bev Zalcock (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1999 | ISBN-10: 1871592925 | ISBN-13: 978-1871592924

From boarding school to women's prison, biker packs to urban vigilantes, rampaging girl gangs have long been a staple feature of exploitation/ independent cinema.

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".

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With details on catfights, cowgirls, biker women and the heavily armed Pam Grier, this has it all. -- The Guide

About the Author

Bev Zalcock is a film studies lecturer and film maker at St. Martin's College and Birkbeck College, University of London. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: The Tears Corporation/Creation (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1871592925
• ISBN-13: 978-1871592924
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,204,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars True Terror of "Get together", February 8, 2004

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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."