“Wanted Dead or Alive”: The Female Outlaw and Callie Khouri’s Thelma and Louise
This essay analyzes Callie Khouri’s Thelma and Louise, drawing comparisons to the outlaw Belle Starr who had violated acceptable codes of behavior for late nineteenth-century American women. Employing the analysis of the "Bandit Queen” persona, Paige discusses which components of the outlaw fig...
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Göttingen University Press
2007-12-01
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| Series: | American Studies Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.asjournal.org/archive/50/84.html |