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Rhetorical Genders: Performances Of A Lifetime In Thelma And Louise
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If the 1991 box office success of Thelma and Louise was unexpected, more surprising was the heated debate that followed its release, a debate over the film’s political status and social implications. While Joan Smith of The Guardian argued that the film’s “effect is perversely to reinforce the me ....
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....ication, so that “sexual difference” is ultimately reconfirmed and any ambiguity reconciled through narrative closure. (57)
In Thelma and Louise, however, the narrative impulse toward noncontradictory identification, resolution, and closure is disrupted rather than reinforced by the film’s imagery. But such disruption is difficult to perceive from a realist reading of the film’s narrative. From this critical perspective, the film is the story of two women trapped in the inexorable workings of.... |
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