Rethinking the femme fatale in film noir
Subtitle: ready for her close-up
By: Julie Grossman
Edition: Paperback ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781137285881
Subjects: Femmes fatales in motion pictures; Film noir; History and criticism
Notes: Originally published: 2009.

New preface to the paperback edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt.I Rereading film noir : Film noir's "femmes fatales" : moving beyond gender fantasies; title: "Well, aren't we ambitious" : desire, domesticity, and the "femme fatale," or "You've made up your mind I'm guilty" : the long reach of misreadings of woman as wicked in American film noir; title: Psychological disorders and "wiretapping the unconscious" : film noir listens to women; title: Pt.II Film noir's Janus face : Looking back, Victorinoir : modern women and the fatal(e) progeny of Victorian representations; title: Looking forward : deconstructing the "femme fatale."