Title: Looking for trouble :
Authors: Moore, Suzanne,
Date: 1991
Publisher: Serpent's Tail,
Physical description: ix, 310 p. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: A
Abstract: A collection of Suzanne Moore's writings and essays from the 1980s.
Contents: 1. Feminism. Men. Men against men again. Target man. The brothers grim. Toy soldiers or wicked willies. Prince. Torch Song tightrope. Here's looking at you, kid. Women. Material girl. Hi, I'm Anneka -- fly me. Green light spells danger. The odds of getting even. A call to underarms. Fatal fantasies. Happiness is a warm gun. Close-up as the cookie crumbles. Women who read too much. The great awakening. Modern romance. The merry life of Windsor. Children. Hiding in the wardrobe. Hung-up on Father Christmas. Politics of choice. Birth and death. Maternal melodramas. Eternal childhood. Unhappy families. Heroes in a half-shell -- 2. Fantasy. Fear. Killjoy culture. Filming by numbers. Beating times. The death of intimacy. To hell and back. Murder most foul. Electric shocks. Fag ends. Soft soap. Flesh. Good vibrations. Deviant laws. Everyday eroticism. One big act. A screw of convenience? Missionary sex. The struggle for safe endings. Faith. Kidnapped by the counter-culture. Sculpting in time. Playing Jesus by night. Nothing but the truth. Always a love story. Jazz junkie -- 3. Power. Pleasure. Understimulation. And now the news. Film slobs. The metal age. All night long. The money game. Mall-content? Mini-politics: saying no in public. Belushi's last high. Something to stay home about. Reach for the stars. Starship stories. Politics. Political poison. Junk culture. Never really at home. A problem of identities. Brand loyalty. Sun rises in the east. You can't do the right thing all the time. Great expectations. Populism. Postmodern paralysis. Britain's macho man. On the side of the man in the street. Against the sober grain. Postmodernism. Politics of seduction. Getting a bit of the other -- the pimps of postmodernism.
Subject headings (LCSH): Motion pictures--Reviews; Popular culture--Great Britain--History--20th century; Reviews.; Sexism in motion pictures.