Marlene Dietrich, The blue angel, and female performance -- Female criminality and servitude in Claude Chabrol's La cérémonie -- Inversion and lesbian plots in Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les diaboliques -- Walking the Tightrope of feminism and male desire -- L.A. law and prime-time feminism -- Fear of falling -- Caged and framed: the women-in-prison film -- A parallax view of lesbian authorship -- Julie Zando's primal scenes -- Girl talk -- Su Friedrich's swimming lessons.