The Femme Fatale / / Julie Grossman.
Ostensibly the villain, but also a model of female power, poise, and intelligence, the femme fatale embodies Hollywood’s contradictory attitudes toward ambitious women. But how has the figure of the femme fatale evolved over time, and to what extent have these changes reflected shifting cultural att...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (138 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 THEDA BARA AND BARBARA STANWYCK’S “BABY FACE” Exoticism and the Street-Smart Vamp
- 2 WARTIME AND POSTWAR FILM NOIR, NEO-NOIR, AND THE FEMME FATALE
- 3 TRACY FLICK AND TELEVISION’S UNRULY WOMEN
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- FURTHER READING
- WORKS CITED
- SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR