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Classic French noir : gender and the cinema of fatal desire / Deborah Walker-Morrison.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.F54 W35 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker-Morrison, Deborah, author.
- Series:
- International library of the moving image ; 57.
- International library of the moving image ; 57
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film noir--France--History and criticism.
- Film noir.
- France.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2019.
- Contents:
- Defining film noir p. 4
- Corpus p. 5
- French and American film noir: historical links p. 6
- Sociological theory p. 7
- Constructivism and psychoanalysis p. 8
- Biocultural approaches p. 9
- Evolutionary psychology p. 10
- The biocultural turn in evolutionary science p. 12
- A biocultural approach to gender: similarity and difference p. 14
- The cinema of fatal desire p. 16
- 2 Fatal(e) Desire in French Poetic Realism p. 18
- Introduction: poetic realism as proto-noir p. 18
- Gendered figures in poetic realism p. 19
- Star-crossed lovers: the tragic hero and French fatale as fatalitaire p. 20
- Part II The Long Shadow of War
- 3 Looking for the Light p. 31
- Introduction: invasion, occupation, collaboration p. 31
- A cinema of paradox p. 32
- Les Années noires and crime drama p. 33
- Liberation crime drama and the myth of the Resistance p. 40
- Le réalisme noir and flawed masculinity p. 41
- 4 Too Many Women? War and Fatal(e) Desire p. 50
- Classic American femme fatale as spider woman p. 51
- French fatale: 'Cherchez la femme' p. 53
- War, demographics and assertive femininity: sex ratio theory p. 59
- Part III Cherchez La Femme
- 5 Fatal(e) Passions: Tragic Fatalitaires and Star-Crossed Lovers p. 71
- Introduction: passionate love as universal human adaptation p. 71
- Love styles p. 73
- Star-crossed lovers p. 74
- Male sexual jealousy p. 79
- Simone Signoret as modern girl and prostitute fatalitaire p. 80
- Femininity as masquerade? p. 83
- Evil pimps p. 85
- Race, class and gender in J'irai cracker sur vos tombes [I will Spit on your Graves] (Gast, 1959) p. 86
- 6 'Thou Shalt Not Covet': Adulterous Fatalitaires p. 94
- Introduction: what do women want? p. 94
- Le dernier tournant [The Last Turn] (Chena), 1939) p. 96
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett, USA, 1946) p. 97
- From fatalitaire to femme fatale p. 99
- Thérèse Raquin [The Adulteress] (Carné, France/Italy, 1953) p. 104
- Ascenseur pour l'échafaud [Lift to The Scaffold] (Malle, 1958) p. 106
- 7 Bad Girls p. 113
- Introduction: the bad-girl fatale as archetypal unruly woman p. 113
- The unruly femme and male paranoia p. 114
- What does the femme want? p. 116
- Demonic fatale as amoureuse p. 117
- The long shadow of war p. 119
- The unglamorous fatale as camouflage p. 120
- Paranoia, lethal femme power and risk p. 122
- Woman as spectacle and exchange object p. 128
- The femme as avenging angel p. 132
- Conclusion: from spectacle to subjectivity p. 134
- Part IV Cherchez L'Homme
- 8 Fatal Men p. 139
- L'homme fatal p. 140
- Bonnes à tuer [One Step to Eternity] (Decoin, 1954) p. 140
- Une Manche et la Belle [A Kiss For A Killer] (Verneuil, 1957) p. 148
- La Bête à L'Affût [Beast at Bay] (Chenal, 1959): after Forests of the Night (Keene, 1956) p. 155
- 9 Law Enforcers Meet the Femme p. 162
- Honourable cops and shady dames p. 163
- Cops and robbers; blurred boundaries p. 165
- Investigating the femme p. 169
- En cas de Malheur [Love is my Profession] (Autant-Lara, France/Italy, 1956) p. 172
- From protection to violent surveillance: the bodyguard hypothesis p. 176
- Bardot as new fatalitaire p. 180
- 10 Love and Money: Gender and Consumption in Gangster Noir p. 183
- Urban spaces of conspicuous consumption p. 184
- Conspicuous consumption, honour and hyper-masculinity p. 186
- Reconfiguring left-handed endeavour as collaborative labour p. 187
- Females in (gangster) noir: insatiable consumers p. 189
- Domestic spaces: tradition vs modernity p. 192
- Iconic objects of conspicuous consumption: the ultimate consumer durable p. 195
- Rififi: questioning gangster culture p. 198
- Du rififi chez les femmes: the first French noir action babe p. 201
- Classic French Noir: The Dark Side of 'Quality' Cinema (1946-59) p. 207
- Gender and power in classic French noir p. 209
- Noir as sociohistorically inflected dramas of mate selection p. 210
- French fatale as romantic fatalitaire p. 211
- French noir as an evolving constant p. 212
- Directions for future research p. 213.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260), filmography (pages 217-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1784539716
- 9781784539719
- OCLC:
- 1004830569
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