What do you think?
Rate this book
Renegade Sisters: Girl Gangs On Film
Cultural Writing. From boarding school to women's prison, biker packs to urban vigilantes, witches' coven to sex-crazed nuns, rampaging girl gangs have long been a staple feature of exploitation/underground cinema. RENEGADE SISTERS examines the whole history of girl gangs on film, featuring many deviant displays of "girl power" from various genres, and illustrated by dozens of stimulating photographs, RENEGADE SISTERS is the ultimate guide to untamed, celluloid she-devils. New, updated and expanded edition features additional chapters on Delinquent Nurses and Fang Gangs: Vampire Vixens, plus the fiery feature film of Charlie's Angels, and an exclusive interview with Stephanie Rothman, director of girl-gang classics Student Nurses and Terminal Island. ADULT MATERIAL.
Paperback
First published October 1, 1998
1 person is currently reading
49 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
December 26, 2022
True Terror of "Get together"
Everything you ever wanted to know about women coagulating in living monochrome is in this book. The book goes through 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 such 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 others such as "Fragments of Fear: an illustrated History of British Horror Films."
Everything you ever wanted to know about women coagulating in living monochrome is in this book. The book goes through 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 such 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 others such as "Fragments of Fear: an illustrated History of British Horror Films."
October 4, 2013
A book that really covers two topics ... exploitation films and radical lesbian art films ... and is good on the latter subject and just terrible on the former one. The author's interests clearly don't lie in the exploitation field, and as a result, she says many odd and flat out incorrect things about the subject. I would not recommend the book if that's where your interests lie.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews