Grossman, Julie, <br/><br/>
Rethinking the femme fatale in film noir :  ready for her close-up / 
Julie Grossman. 
 - Basingstoke, UK ;  New York :  Palgrave Macmillan,  2009. 
 - 176 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>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". HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M08 
<br/><br/> "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"--Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780230233287 0230233287 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Femmes fatales in motion pictures.<br/>Film noir--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995  / G878 R 2009