Rethinking the femme fatale in film noir : ready for her close-up / / Julie Grossman.

"In the context of nineteenth-century Victorinoir and close readings of original-cycle film noir, Julie Grossman argues that the presence of the 'femme fatale' figure, as she is understood in film criticism and popular culture, is drastically over-emphasized and has helped to sustain...

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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:xi, 176 p. :; ill.
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245 1 0 |a Rethinking the femme fatale in film noir  |h [electronic resource] :  |b ready for her close-up /  |c Julie Grossman. 
260 |a Basingstoke, UK ;  |a New York :  |b Palgrave Macmillan,  |c 2009. 
300 |a xi, 176 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction : "no one mourns the wicked" -- Film noir's "femmes fatales" : moving beyond gender fantasies -- "Well, aren't we ambitious? : desire, domesticity, and the "femme fatale" -- Psychological disorders and "wiretapping the unconscious" : film noir listens to women -- Looking back - Victorinoir: modern women and the fatal(e) progeny of Victorian representations -- Looking forward- deconstructing the "femme Fatale". 
520 |a "In the context of nineteenth-century Victorinoir and close readings of original-cycle film noir, Julie Grossman argues that the presence of the 'femme fatale' figure, as she is understood in film criticism and popular culture, is drastically over-emphasized and has helped to sustain cultural obsessions with 'bad' women"--Provided by publisher. 
533 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
650 0 |a Femmes fatales in motion pictures. 
650 0 |a Film noir  |x History and criticism. 
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