Thelma & Louise - (Reel West) by Susan Kollin (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Thelma & Louise, the 1991 film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, has been described as a road movie, a buddy movie, a feminist parable, and only incidentally as a Western. An Oscar winner for first-time screenwriter Callie Khouri, Thelma & Louise catalyzed a national conversation about women, violence, and self-determination in a Hollywood still shrugging off the West of John Wayne and in an America that still viewed women as accessories to the national mythology.

In this latest volume in the Reel West Series series, Susan Kollin recreates this watershed moment for women's movies in general and women's Westerns in particular.

Review Quotes

Susan Kollin's use of the Western genre to reexamine Thelma & Louise is timely, relevant, and very welcome. Kollin has crafted a very thoughtful analysis that resists easy answers and allows the film's full complexity to shine through, leading to even deeper conversations and new questions.--Cynthia J. Miller, author of The Encylopedia of B Westerns

About the Author

Susan Kollin is a distinguished professor in the Department of English and the director of the American Studies Program at Montana State University, where she teaches courses in Western fiction and film. She is a past president of the Western Literature Association and the editor of A History of Western American Literature.