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The Femme Fatale
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Author : Julie Grossman
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-18
The Femme Fatale written by Julie Grossman and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-18 with Performing Arts categories.
Ostensibly the villain, but also a model of female power, poise, and intelligence, the femme fatale embodies Hollywood’s contradictory attitudes toward ambitious women. But how has the figure of the femme fatale evolved over time, and to what extent have these changes reflected shifting cultural attitudes toward female independence and sexuality? This book offers readers a concise look at over a century of femmes fatales on both the silver screen and the TV screen. Starting with ethnically exoticized silent film vamps like Theda Bara and Pola Negri, it examines classic film noir femmes fatales like Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity, as well as postmodern revisions of the archetype in films like Basic Instinct and Memento. Finally, it explores how contemporary film and television creators like Fleabag and Killing Eve’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge have appropriated the femme fatale in sympathetic and surprising ways. Analyzing not only the films themselves, but also studio press kits and reviews, The Femme Fatale considers how discourses about the pleasures and dangers of female performance are projected onto the figure of the femme fatale. Ultimately, it is a celebration of how “bad girl” roles have provided some of Hollywood’s most talented actresses opportunities to fully express their on-screen charisma.
The Femme Fatale Images Histories Contexts
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Author : Helen Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-07-20
The Femme Fatale Images Histories Contexts written by Helen Hanson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-20 with Performing Arts categories.
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.
Femme Fatale
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Author : Patrick Bade
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Femme Fatale written by Patrick Bade and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Arts, Modern categories.
"In the striking works of pre-Raphaelite, Symbolist and Art Nouveau artists and in their literary parallels, Patrick Bade uncovers an extraordinary, disturbing world of sexual fantasy and a remarkably pervasive image of woman as destroyer, enchantress, priestess, siren, sphinx and angel of death, the femme fatale becambe the sinister new heroine of an entire generation of one of the most powerful symbols of change in late nineteenth-century society."--Back cover.
Femme Fatale
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Author : James Ursini
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2009-10-01
Femme Fatale written by James Ursini and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with Performing Arts categories.
From the femme fatale of the early cinema to her post-feminist rebirth this lavishly illustrated book and comprehensive guide traces the history of these dangerously alluring manipulative and desperate lethal ladies. ÊFemme FataleÊ surveys the history of the femme fatale in world cinema with more than 300 photographs testifying to the power of these mysterious women. The book begins with the silent period and its vamps like Theda Bara Pola Negri Clara Bow and Bebe Daniels then moves on to the Pre-Code sound period of American films which showing liberated attitudes toward sex and women featured actresses like Jean Harlow Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. The story continues with the noir 1940s when the femme fatale became truly lethal ä including actresses like Ava Gardner Rita Hayworth and Barbara Stanwyck. In the repressive 1950s the international femme fatale took the fore ä Brigitte Bardot Maria Felix Elizabeth Taylor Anita Ekberg etc. Finally the authors turn to the revolutionary post-feminist modern period with an array of lethal ladies from all over the world like Pam Grier Salma Hayek Gong Li Angelina Jolie and Sharon Stone.
The Rise And Fall Of The Femme Fatale In British Literature 1790 1910
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Author : Heather Braun
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2012
The Rise And Fall Of The Femme Fatale In British Literature 1790 1910 written by Heather Braun and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with English literature categories.
The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910 explores the femme fatale's career in nineteenth-century British literature. It traces her evolution--and devolution--formally, historically, and ideologically through a selection of plays, poems, novels, and personal correspondence. Considering well-known fatal women alongside more obscure ones, The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale sheds new light on emerging notions of gender, sexuality, and power throughout the long nineteenth century. By placing the fatal woman in a still-developing literary and cultural narrative, this study examines how the femme fatale adapts over time, reflecting popular tastes and socio-economic landscapes.
Femme Fatale
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Author : Carole Nelson Douglas
language : en
Publisher: Forge Books
Release Date : 2004-11-01
Femme Fatale written by Carole Nelson Douglas and has been published by Forge Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-01 with Fiction categories.
Irene Adler is the only woman to ever have outwitted Sherlock Holmes... and the one who has come closest to stealing his heart. She has competed (and sometimes cooperated) with the famous fictional detective over six popular and acclaimed novels, featuring her daring investigations across the Continent. All along, the beautiful and brilliant American diva-turned-detective has managed to conceal her background and history, even from her dashing barrister husband Godfrey Norton and her devoted friend and biographer, English spinster Nell Huxleigh. Irene's past is shrouded in secrecy-but a series of bizarre killings in New York City draws her reluctantly back to her native country, where she must race with a murderer to find her mother, a woman of mystery who may turn out to be the most notorious woman of the nineteenth century. As Irene forges a trail into her own hidden past, Nellie Bly draws another ace investigator across the Atlantic to join in the hunt for a serial killer, the last man on earth Irene Adler wants to discover anything about her shocking past... Sherlock Holmes.
Femme Fatale Book 1 Straight Up With No Chaser
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Author : Imari Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2020-02-08
Femme Fatale Book 1 Straight Up With No Chaser written by Imari Wilson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-08 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Maite Debois aka Keiko is one of the best contract assassins known throughout the world; whose beauty is the epitome of deadly. She has been a part of the world's deadliest crime organizations, called The 13 Chambers since the age of 8 years old. Taught from young to be judge, jury, and executioner with a cold less heart; will Maite give into love or stay devoted to The 13 Chambers.
The Femme Fatale In Victorian Literature
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Author : Jennifer Hedgecock
language : en
Publisher: Cambria Press
Release Date : 2008
The Femme Fatale In Victorian Literature written by Jennifer Hedgecock and has been published by Cambria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Collections categories.
"examines the changing social and economic status of women from the 1860s through the 1880s, and rejects the stereotypical mid-Victorian femme fatale portrayed by conservative ideologues critiquing popular fiction by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Honore de Balzac, and William Makepeace Thackeray. In these book reviews, the female protagonist is simply minimized to a dangerous woman. Refuting this one-dimensional characterization, this book argues that the femme fatale comes to represent the real-life struggles of the middle-class Victorian woman who overcomes major adversities such as poverty, abusive husbands, abandonment, single parenthood, limited job opportunities, the criminal underworld, and Victorian society's harsh invective against her." --publisher description.
The Contemporary Femme Fatale
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Author : Katherine Farrimond
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-06
The Contemporary Femme Fatale written by Katherine Farrimond and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with Social Science categories.
The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema. From sci-fi alien women to teenage bad girls, filmmakers continue to draw on the notion of the sexy deadly woman in ways which traverse boundaries of genre and narrative. 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. The films discussed raise questions about the limits and potential of positioning women who meet highly normative standards of beauty as powerful icons of female agency. They point towards the constant shifting between patriarchal appropriation and feminist recuperation that inevitably accompanies such representations within mainstream media contexts.
The Femme Fatale
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Author : Virginia M. Allen
language : en
Publisher: Whitston Publishing Company Incorporated
Release Date : 1983
The Femme Fatale written by Virginia M. Allen and has been published by Whitston Publishing Company Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the origins of the femme fatale, women who seduce men to their downfall. This exploration includes the image of the femme fatale in history, literature, art, and feminism.