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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Grossman, Julie, 1962-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Subjects:	Femmes fatales in motion pictures. Film noir > History and criticism. Cultural studies. Film theory & criticism. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference. Society. Femmes fatales in motion pictures Film noir Femme fatale Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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" or "You're made up your mind I'm guilty" : the long reach of misreadings of woman as wicked in American film noir
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."

Rethinking the femme fatale in film noir : ready for her close-up / Julie Grossman.

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