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Rethinking the femme fatale in film noir : ready for her close-up / Julie Grossman.
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TextPublication details: Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: 176 p. : illISBN: - 9780230233287
- 0230233287
- PN1995 G878 R 2009
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MATRIX Library General Eng/FL.3 | General Books | PN1995 G878 R 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 1000370546 |
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.
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