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1 online resource (289 pages). |
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International Library of the Moving Image Ser.
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International Library of the Moving Image Ser.
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Cover; Author Biography; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; PART I. SETTING THE SCENE; 1. Introduction; Defining film noir; Corpus; French and American film noir: historical links; Sociological theory; Constructivism and psychoanalysis; Biocultural approaches; Evolutionary psychology; The biocultural turn in evolutionary science; A biocultural approach to gender: similarity and difference; The cinema of fatal desire; 2. Fatal(e) Desire in French Poetic Realism; Introduction: poetic realism as proto-noir; Gendered figures in poetic realism |
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Star-crossed lovers: the tragic hero and French fatale as fatalitaireConclusion; PART II. THE LONG SHADOW OF WAR; 3. Looking for the Light; Introduction: invasion, occupation, collaboration; A cinema of paradox; Les Années noires and crime drama; Liberation crime drama and the myth of the Resistance; Le réalisme noir and flawed masculinity; Conclusion; 4. Too Many Women? War and Fatal(e) Desire; Introduction; Classic American femme fatale as spider woman; French fatale: 'Cherchez la femme'; War, demographics and assertive femininity: sex ratio theory; Conclusion; PART III CHERCHEZ LA FEMME |
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5. Fatal(e) Passions: Tragic Fatalitaires and Star-Crossed LoversIntroduction: passionate love as universal human adaptation; Love styles; Star-crossed lovers; Male sexual jealousy; Simone Signoret as modern girl and prostitute fatalitaire; Femininity as masquerade?; Evil pimps; Race, class and gender in J'irai cracher sur vos tombes [I will Spit on your Graves] (Gast, 1959); Conclusion; 6. 'Thou Shalt Not Covet': Adulterous Fatalitaires; Introduction: what do women want?; Le dernier tournant [The Last Turn] (Chenal, 1939); The Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett, USA, 1946) |
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From fatalitaire to femme fataleThérèse Raquin [The Adulteress] (Carné, France/Italy, 1953); Ascenseur pour l'échafaud [Lift to The Scaffold] (Malle, 1958); Conclusion; 7. Bad Girls; Introduction: the bad-girl fatale as archetypal unruly woman; The unruly femme and male paranoia; What does the femme want?; Demonic fatale as amoureuse; The long shadow of war; The unglamorous fatale as camouflage; Paranoia, lethal femme power and risk; Woman as spectacle and exchange object; The femme as avenging angel; Conclusion: from spectacle to subjectivity; PART IV CHERCHEZ L'HOMME; 8. Fatal Men |
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IntroductionL'homme fatal; Bonnes à tuer [One Step to Eternity] (Decoin, 1954); Une Manche et la Belle [A Kiss For A Killer] (Verneuil, 1957); La Bête à L'Affût [Beast at Bay] (Chenal, 1959): after Forests of the Night (Keene, 1956); Conclusion; 9. Law Enforcers Meet the Femme; Introduction; Honourable cops and shady dames; Cops and robbers: blurred boundaries; Investigating the femme; En cas de Malheur [Love is my Profession] (Autant-Lara, France/Italy, 1956); From protection to violent surveillance: the bodyguard hypothesis; Bardot as new fatalitaire; Conclusion |
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10. Love and Money: Gender and Consumption in Gangster Noir |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Film noir -- France -- History and criticism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. |
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Film noir |
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France https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd8gD4vdtqQMdQHvYqbBP |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Walker-Morrison, Deborah. Classic French Noir : Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire. London : I.B. Tauris & Company, Limited, ©2018 9781784539719 |
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9781786725189 |
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1786725185 |
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9781786735188 (Electronic book (EPUB format) |
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1786735180 (Electronic book (EPUB format) |
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9781784539719 |
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1784539716 |
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