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Film noir fatal women / Alain Silver and James Ursini.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.F44 S555 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silver, Alain, 1947- author.
- Ursini, James, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Femmes fatales in motion pictures.
- Film noir--History and criticism.
- Film noir.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Silman-James Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Film Noir Fatal Women" focuses on a single aspect of film noir-America's only film movement. Its 400 illustrations reveal the graphic and sensory core of the femme fatale in noir's classic period. As both visual icon and dramatic persona, the Fatal Woman underlies countless doomed narratives of film noir. From torch singers to gun molls, secretaries to sociopaths, black widows to B-girls, both blondes and brunettes, abused and empowered, the entire catalogue is up for discussion"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Deadly Precursors
- Motif - Exotic Costuming
- pt. One Themes and Styles
- Sirens - Dressed to Kill
- Motif - Furs, Feet, and Fetishes
- Criminals, Killers, and Sociopaths
- Motif - Women with Guns
- Eat, Drink, Smoke, Shoot
- Motif - A Toast
- Motif - Light Me
- A Girl's Got to Make a Living: Models and Secretaries
- Prostitutes and Showgirls
- Motif - Torch Singing
- pt. Two Roll Call
- The A List
- The B List
- What Else You Got?.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781935247258
- 1935247255
- OCLC:
- 1258041506
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