Katherine Farrimond

The Contemporary Femme Fatale

Gender, Genre and American Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

This book charts the articulations of the femme fatale in American cinema of the past twenty years, and contends that, despite her problematic relationship with feminism, she offers a vital means for reading the connections between mainstream cinema and representations of female agency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781138670662
• ISBN-10: 1138670669
• Artikelnr.: 48797540

Autorenporträt

Katherine Farrimond is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research focuses on the intersections of the body, sexuality and gender in contemporary popular film and television. She has published work on the femme fatale, genre, nostalgia and virginity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Retro
1.The Femme Fatale Who Wasn't There: Retro Noir's Glamorous Ghosts
2. Dead Girls on Film: Retro Noir and the Corpse of the Femme Fatale
Part II: Girls
3. Bad Girls Don't Cry?: Desire, Punishment, and Girls in Crisis
4. Getting Away with It: Postfeminism and the Victorious Girl
Part III: Bisexuality
5. Bisexual Detection: Visibility, Epistemology and Contamination
6. Bisexual Fragmentation: Failures of Representation
Part IV: Monstrosity
7. Bodies of Evidence: Possession, Science, and the Separation of Power
8. Bodies without Origins: Beyond the Myth of the Original Woman
Conclusion