Rethinking the femme fatale in film noir
Subtitle: ready for her close-up
By: Julie Grossman.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780230233287
Subjects: Femmes fatales in motion pictures; Film noir -- History and criticism
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "no one mourns the wicked"; title: Film noir's "femme fatales" : moving beyond gender fantasies; title: "Well, aren't we ambitious? : desire, domesticity, and the "femme fatale"; title: Psychological disorders and "wiretapping the unconscious" : film noir listens to women; title: Looking back - Victorinoir: modern women and the fatal(e) progeny of Victorian representations; title: Looking forward- deconstructing the "femme Fatale".