The contemporary femme fatale : gender genre and american cinema Introduction Retro. The femme fatale who wasnt there: retro noirs glamorous ghosts Dead girls on film: retro noir and the corpse of the femme fatale Girls. Bad girls dont cry: desire punishment and girls in crisis Getting away with it: postfeminism and the victorious girl Bisexuality. Bisexual detection: visibility epistemology and contamination Bisexual fragmentation: failures of representation Monstrosity. Bodies of evidence: possession science and the separation of power Bodies without origins: beyond the myth of the original woman Conclusion