Epilogue

Abstract

Abstract The brief epilogue tracks the ongoing prevalence of woman-on-the-run stories in another popular narrative medium: Hollywood film. In particular, the Hollywood film industry continues to be drawn to stories of women running from the law, usually with a partner in crime (e.g., Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands, Thelma and Louise, Queen and Slim) and stories of women running from abusive husbands (e.g., Sleeping with the Enemy, Enough, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Invisible Man). After discussing how these more recent cinematic representations of female flight connect and relate to those in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, the chapter ends with a nod to the monograph’s namesake, Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl—a novel-turned-film in which the line between the criminalized and victimized runaway woman is provocatively and discomfitingly blurred.