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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Table of Contents:
- 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".