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Author Grossman, Julie, 1962- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjwfqDy6VqVqFMWFg9Vq6X

Title The femme fatale / Julie Grossman.

Publication Info. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (162 pages)
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Series Quick takes: movies and popular culture
Summary "The femme Fatale takes a long view on the figure of the femme fatale, exploring her style, language, and stories from silent cinema to contemporary television. Author Julie Grossman provides a history of some of this dynamic figure's eruptions in film, TV, and culture generally, exploring the notions of female ambition, frustration, and intelligence that undergird the power and fascination of the femme fatale across time and media. We see how the fatal woman often mediates contradictory views on women's lives and their desire to gain fulfillment in a hostile or otherwise challenging environment. Embodied by some of the most charismatic female performers in Hollywood history, from Theda Bara and Barbara Stanwyck to Hedy Lamarr, Reese Witherspoon, and Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, the femme fatale remains an active source of pleasure and subversion. Femmes Fatales pays particular attention to performance not only as a prominent feature of these works' production-established in part through references to studio press books and popular reviews--but also as a theme within the narrative (in, for example, the idea of the deceitful, untrustworthy, or "performing" woman). Focusing on expressive moments and scenes in texts that are celebrated and also those that are lesser known, this volume attends to the variety, trauma, wit, and transgressions of the femme fatale, emphasizing how this figure continually provokes us to reflect on rigid conventions and social roles. Femmes Fatales generates questions and analysis that speak to why stories about gender and criminality featuring tough and smart women are so endlessly thrilling"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
Contents Introduction -- 1. Theda Bara and Barbara Stanwyck's 'Baby face': exoticism and the street-smart vamp -- 2. Wartime and postwar film noir, neo-noir, and the femme fatale -- 3. Tracy Flick, and television's unruly women -- Acknowledgments -- Further reading -- Works cited -- Selected filmography -- Index.
Language In English.
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Subject Femmes fatales in motion pictures.
Femmes fatales.
Nurse and patient.
Nurse and patient
Femmes fatales
Femmes fatales in motion pictures
PERFORMING ARTS / General.
Indexed Term Film, Media Studies, Communications, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, women, women studies, Criticism, History, popular culture, Art, social Science, style, language, stories, Cinema, Video, Author, Julie Grossman, culture generally, female ambition, Females frustration, females intelligence, Theda Bara, Barbara Stanwyck, Hedy Lamarr, Reese Witherspoon, Jodie Comer, Sandra Oh, gender, criminality, smart women.
Other Form: Print version: Grossman, Julie, 1962- Femme fatale. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2020 9780813598246 (DLC) 2019052763 (OCoLC)1128888288
ISBN 9780813598260 (electronic book)
0813598265 (electronic book)
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9780813598246 (paperback)
0813598249 (paperback)
9780813598253 (hardcover)
0813598257 (hardcover)
Standard No. 10.36019/9780813598284