Thelma & Louise - Paperback

by Susan Kollin (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.