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"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"--

Femmes fatales in motion pictures. --- Femmes fatales. --- Film

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These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in contemporary cinema.

Femmes fatales --- Femmes fatales in literature --- Femmes fatales in motion pictures --- Women in popular culture

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Evolution in motion pictures --- Sex in motion pictures --- Femmes fatales in motion pictures. --- Evolution au cinéma --- Sexualité au cinéma --- Femmes fatales au cinéma

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Bollywood Baddies is the first-of-its-kind book-length narrative of villainy in Hindi films. It discusses villains, vamps, and henchmen of Bollywood cinema, and also the actors who essayed such characters over the decades. The author discusses not just villains but also the evaluation of villainous characters vis-à-vis sociopolitical conditions in the country. The narrative begins with Ashok Kumar's negative role in Kismet as early as 1943, and goes up to the Agneepath remake (2012), where Sanjay Dutt plays Kancha Cheena, earlier essayed by Danny Denzongpa in the original.

Villains in motion pictures. --- Femmes fatales in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History --- History and criticism

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Film --- United States --- Femmes fatales in motion pictures --- Film noir --- Gangster films --- Women in motion pictures --- Femmes fatales au cinéma --- Films noirs --- Films de gangsters --- Femmes au cinéma --- Femmes fatales au cinéma --- Femmes au cinéma --- 791.41 --- film --- filmactrices --- filmgeschiedenis --- film noir --- filmtheorie --- gender studies --- twintigste eeuw --- Verenigde Staten --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- United States of America --- Femmes dans les films