university of texas press thelma & louise live the cultural afterlife of an american film nov 2007

[...]... trailers, and a music video The most important print advertisement for Thelma & Louise was the one-sheet lobby poster, an organization of the film’s meanings through the graphic arrangement of image and text, also used as the dominant image in newspaper advertisements for the film The original poster for Thelma & Louise emphasizes female friendship, the possibilities of the open road, and the appeal of the landscape... Bonnie and Clyde (1967), both road and run films featuring outlaw “couples.” Slocum reads Thelma & Louise s cultural politics at the beginning of the 1990s against Bonnie and Clyde’s cultural politics at the end of the 1960s, understanding Thelma & Louise as counter to Reaganera entertainment by restaging a version of 1960s critical liberalism While helping the careers of Sarandon and Davis, Thelma & Louise. .. seen the film as clearly as scholars working from the remove of a decade and a half Nevertheless, these articles provide evidence of the strong and significant response to Thelma & Louise at its time of release and testify to the film’s importance Thelma and Louise clasp hands, reaching a decision not to surrender Frame capture “I Can See Clearly Now” 5 This anthology seeks to understand the social meanings... look of western landscape and polished metal and composer Hans Zimmer to create the score, with its strong western motifs supplied by harmonica and guitar Scott and others provide the film with a more expansive scope, visually opening the film to take advantage of the sweep of the American West, situating the personal development of the characters into the visual iconography of the American cinema and... published a study of women’s Thelma and Louise “keep going” over the edge of the Grand Canyon Frame capture 2 Bernie Cook reception of Thelma & Louise in Feminist Media Studies Thelma & Louise has received significant, but hardly exhaustive, scholarly attention This volume seeks to complement existing scholarship on Thelma & Louise, to break new ground in understandings of the film, and to pioneer productive... contains a full-color image of an empty two-lane blacktop road, emerging from the bottom center of the poster and leading toward an image of Monument Valley, a horizon of mesas and rocks across the lowest quarter of the image The road runs perpendicular to the horizon, veering left before the mesas The dominant colors of the lower portion are tans and reds The upper three-quarters of the background features... distressed photograph and film frame This simulation of image as artifact recalls the freeze-frame that concludes Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), an image of the two outlaws charging out of hiding to meet the gunfire of the Bolivian Army Critics and scholars have linked Thelma & Louise s final freeze-frame to the concluding moment of the earlier film In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the final frame... essays on Thelma & Louise by Cathy Griggers and Sharon Willis In 2000, the British Film Institute published Marita Sturken’s monograph on Thelma & Louise as an edition of its Film Classics” series Outside of film studies, in Critical Studies in Mass Communication (1999), Brenda Cooper published a study of gendered reception of Thelma & Louise in which she employed the methodology of relevance theory In... appeal of the landscape and associated myths and meanings of the American West The poster addresses an audience with interest in female friendship, female melodrama, the road movie, the Western, and the buddy comedy The image is composed of two prominent elements: a highway and western landscape in the background and an image of the main characters and text credits in the foreground The background contains... had harassed them verbally throughout the film Thelma and Louise put on and play up a constructed sexuality appealing to the trucker’s fantasy of women excited by abuse and anxious for anonymous 22 Bernie Cook sex Once the trucker has pulled o≠ the road, left his truck, and approached them, Thelma and Louise drop the first performance, seeking to shock and shame him through a second performance as vengeful . alt="" THELMA & LOUISE LIVE!