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Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir : Ready for Her Close-Up / by J. Grossman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grossman, Julie, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Sex.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- Television broadcasting.
- Literature, Modern--19th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Film and TV History.
- Gender Studies.
- Cultural History.
- Film and Television Studies.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Film and TV History.
- Gender Studies.
- Cultural History.
- Film and Television Studies.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2009.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612673993
- 9781282673991
- 1282673998
- 9780230274983
- 0230274986
- OCLC:
- 650308556
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