Rethinking the femme fatale in film noir ready for her close-up / Julie Grossman, Professor of English and Communications and Film Studies, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, USA.

Author/creator Grossman, Julie, 1962-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBasingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Descriptionxxiii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Contents Pt.I Rereading film noir : Film noir's "femmes fatales" : moving beyond gender fantasies -- "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 -- Psychological disorders and "wiretapping the unconscious" : film noir listens to women -- Pt.II Film noir's Janus face : Looking back, Victorinoir : modern women and the fatal(e) progeny of Victorian representations -- Looking forward : deconstructing the "femme fatale."
General noteOriginally published: 2009.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 161-167) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012277347
ISBN9781137285881 (pbk.)
ISBN9780230233287 (hbk.)

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