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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Grossman, Julie (1962-....)
Titre(s) : The femme fatale [Texte imprimé] / Julie Grossman
Publication : New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : vii, 162 pages ; 19 cm
Collection : Quick takes : movies and popular culture
Lien à la collection : Quick takes
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-150), filmography (pages 151-152) and
index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Femmes fatales -- Au cinéma
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 522 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thème des femmes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813598246. - ISBN 0813598249. - ISBN 9780813598253. - ISBN 0813598257. -
ISBN 9780813598260 (erroné). - ISBN 9780813598277 (erroné). - ISBN 9780813598284 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46648591m
Notice n° :
FRBNF46648591
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Theda Bara and Barbara Stanwyck's "Baby face": exoticism and the street-smart vamp
; Wartime and postwar film noir, neo-noir, and the femme fatale ; Tracy Flick and
television's unruly women.
