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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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Courtesans --- Courtesans. --- Femmes fatales --- Femmes fatales. --- Women --- Women.
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Qu'est-ce qu'une femme fatale ? Un mythe ? Un fantasme ? Un monstre pervers ou le reflet de nos désirs ? Fascinant autant les hommes que les femmes, les fatales suscitent l'admiration, la peur, la haine ou la passion. Moins souvent la jalousie. Si elles ont brillé dans l'histoire, la mode et la musique, elles ont pris une dimension incandescente avec le cinéma et illuminent désormais la mythologie contemporaine.
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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.
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This book explores the different trends and the various changes in the representational history of femmes fatales Otherin twentieth century American culture. While providing precedents, discussing the Western cultural history of this iconic female figure as well as presenting the cultural and theoretical debates surrounding 'her,' the major focus lies in Maurine Dallas Watkins's story entitled Chicago and how its diachronic and transmedial revivals contributed to this debate and what kind of a...
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Femmes fatales. --- Journalists --- Comic books, strips, etc.
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A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous, just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves. Featuring a killer soundtrack and electric performances from Jeff Daniels.
Man-woman relationships --- Kidnapping --- Yuppies --- Femmes fatales
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Composers --- Femmes fatales --- Compositeurs --- Femmes fatales --- Sexual behavior --- Comportement sexuel --- Beethoven, Ludwig van,
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Sociology of literature --- Iconography --- Femmes fatales. --- Femmes fatales in art --- Women in art --- Women in popular culture --- Femmes fatales --- Femmes fatales dans l'art --- Femmes dans l'art --- Femmes dans la culture populaire --- History --- Histoire
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