Seminar: Thelma & Louise

Starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in performances that saw them both nominated for Oscars in the Best Actress in a Leading Role category, this film is considered a hallmark of feminist cinema. 

This seminar will explore female criminality in Thelma and Louise through a feminist lens. What makes these good girls go bad? And how do they respond to a system that won’t protect them from violence? In this story of how women rebel in a man’s world, we see the choices they make and what they cost–but no matter what, these girls on the run have each other’s backs.

About Abbie DeCamp

Abbie DeCamp is a Postdoctoral Teaching Associate at Northeastern University. She teaches Advanced Writing for Technical Professions, Introduction to Rhetoric, Reading and Writing in the Digital Age, and First Year Writing. Her research focuses on feminist and queer visual culture, and she especially loves feminist and queer cinema. Her writing has appeared in The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric and Computers and Composition, and she will have an upcoming piece featured in "Memes and Rhetorical Identity."