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 | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. |
| Description | xxiii, 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 note | Originally published: 2009. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-167) and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2012277347 |
| ISBN | 9781137285881 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1137285885 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780230233287 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0230233287 (hbk.) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN1995.9 .F44 G76 2013 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |