01493cam a2200241 a 4500 091002s2009 enka b 001 0 eng 9780230233287 0230233287 SDU PN1995 G878 R 2009 Grossman, Julie, 196994 Rethinking the femme fatale in film noir : ready for her close-up / Julie Grossman. Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 176 p. : ill. 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 YT2025 M08 "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. Femmes fatales in motion pictures. 196995 Film noir History and criticism. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 105090 105090 0 0 lcc 0 PN1995 G878 R2009 0 CGB 279519 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-08-27 2 0 PN1995 G878 R 2009 1000370546 2025-08-27 00:00:00 C.1 2025-08-27 GBE