Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 16 June 2024

"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

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 21 October 2009

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

• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
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• Release Date : 18 September 2020

Ostensibly the villain, but also a model of female power, poise, and intelligence, the femme fatale embodies Hollywood’s contradictory attitudes toward ambitious women. But how has the figure of

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• Release Date : 16 June 2024

"Film Noir Fatal Women" focuses on a single aspect of film noir-America's only film movement. Its 400 illustrations reveal the graphic and sensory core of the femme fatale in noir's classic

• Publisher : Scarecrow Press
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• Release Date : 19 March 2010

The Historical Dictionary of Film Noir is a comprehensive guide that ranges from 1940 to present day neo-noir. It consists of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, a filmography, and

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 10 November 2016

Comprised of 43 innovative contributions, this companion is both an overview of, and intervention into the field of cinema and gender. The essays included here address a variety of geographical contexts,

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
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• Release Date : 15 September 2014

Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating wives

• Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
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• Release Date : 11 November 2014

Explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade's

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 29 October 2020

This volume provides an overview of the landscape of mediated female agencies and subjectivities in the last decade. In three sections, the book covers the films of women directors, television

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 11 August 2015

This book is a thought-provoking study that expands on film scholarship on noir and feminist scholarship on postfeminism, subjectivity, and representation to provide an inclusive, sophisticated, and up-to-date analysis of