TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grossman,Julie
TI  - Rethinking the femme fatale in film noir: ready for her close-up 
SN  - 9780230233287
AV  - PN1995 G878 R 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Basingstoke, UK, New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Femmes fatales in motion pictures
KW  - Film noir
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
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