The Contemporary Femme Fatale, Farrimond, Katherine

Автор: Grossman Julie
Название: The Femme Fatale
ISBN: 0813598249 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813598246
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Описание: 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.

Автор: J. Grossman
Название: Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir
ISBN: 1349313343 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349313341
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Описание: In the context of nineteenth-century Victorinoir and close readings of original-cycle film noir, Julie Grossman argues that the presence of the "femme fatale" figure, as she is understood in film criticism and popular culture, is drastically over-emphasized and has helped to sustain cultural obsessions with "bad" women.

Автор: Farrimond, Katherine (university Of Sussex)
Название: Contemporary femme fatale
ISBN: 1138670669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138670662
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Kotowski Mariusz
Название: Pola Negri: Hollywood`s First Femme Fatale
ISBN: 0813144884 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813144887
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Pola Negri (1897--1987) rose from an impoverished childhood in Warsaw, Poland, to become one of early Hollywood's greatest stars. After tuberculosis ended her career as a ballerina in 1912, she turned to acting and worked under legendary directors Max Reinhardt and Ernst Lubitsch in Germany. Negri preceded Lubitsch to Hollywood, where she quickly became a fan favorite thanks to her beauty, talent, and diva personality. Known for her alluring sexuality and biting artistic edge, she starred in more than sixty films and defined the image of the cinematic femme fatale.

Author Mariusz Kotowski brings the screen siren's story to English-speaking audiences for the first time in this fascinating biography. At the height of her fame, Negri often portrayed exotic and mysterious temptresses, headlining in such successes as The Spanish Dancer (1923) and Forbidden Paradise (1924), before returning to Europe in the 1930s. The devastating effects of World War II soon drove her back to the United States, where she starred in Hi Diddle Diddle (1943) and pursued her vaudeville career before retiring from the entertainment industry.

Kotowski also illuminates Negri's dramatic personal life, detailing her numerous love affairs -- including her engagement to Charlie Chaplin and her romance with Rudolph Valentino -- as well as her multiple marriages. This long-overdue biography not only paints a detailed portrait of one classic Hollywood's most intriguing stars and the film industry's original Jezebel, but also explores the link between Hollywood and European cinema during the interwar years.

Автор: Simkin
Название: Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale
ISBN: 0230355692 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230355699
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Описание: The figure of the beautiful but lethal woman has haunted the Western imagination from ancient myth to contemporary film. Looking at news media, cinema, drama and other cultural forms, this study considers the interaction between representations of `real life` `femmes fatales` and their fictional counterparts.

Автор: R. Stott
Название: The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale
ISBN: 0333556127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333556122
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Описание: The book argues that Rider Haggard`s She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed , Bram Stoker`s female vampires and Conrad`s destructive Malayan or African women, even Hardy`s Tess , are all caught up in a series of late nineteenth-century contexts: biological determinism, imperialism, race, theories about female sexuality, degeneration and evolutionary theory.

Автор: Verlaine Rp
Название: Femme Fatales, Movie Starlets & Rockers (Illustrated Haiku and Short Poems)
ISBN: 1456629662 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781456629663
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Описание: It`s late at night and the rain is pouring down on Dublin`s city streets. A mother is grieving for her dead child. She stands silently outside the home of the teenage boy she believes responsible. In a kitchen on the same square, a girl waits anxiously for her mum to come home. She knows where she is, but she knows she cannot reach her. A few doors down, a widow has just delivered a bombshell to her family during dinner and her life is about to change forever. And an aspiring theatre director has just moved in across the street. But there are already a few things about her landlord that don`t quite add up. Welcome to Primrose Square! Trade paperback edtn.

Автор: Doane
Название: Femmes Fatales
ISBN: 113814407X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138144071
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Описание: A major work of feminist film criticism examining questions of sexual difference, the female body and the female spectator through a discussion of such figures as Pabst`s Lulu and Rita Hayworth`s Gilda.

Автор: Laura James
Название: The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial
ISBN: 1606353942 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781606353943
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Описание: Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment, based largely on their looks, for cold-blooded crimes. The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial gathers the true stories of some of the most infamous femmes fatales in criminal history, collected by attorney and true crime historian Laura James.With cases from 1850 to 1997, these 32 examples span more than a century, across cultures, ethnicities, and socioeconomic status. But all were so beautiful, as James demonstrates, that they got away with murder.When Madeline Smith, a Glasgow socialite, tried to end a relationship with one man to date another, her jilted lover proved difficult to shake. She solved the problem, James writes, with arsenic-laced chocolates. And in Warrenton, Virginia, mild-mannered heiress Susan Cummings gunned down her polo-playing husband, Roberto, following a disagreement. While these two women lived in different centuries and on different continents, both of their lawyers argued that they were too beautiful to be killers. And in both cases, the juries bought it.In telling the stories of Madeline Smith and Susan Cummings—and 30 others—James proves the existence of the so-called Beauty Defense and shines a spotlight on how gender bias has actually benefited femmes fatales and affected legal systems across the world.

Автор: Lindop
Название: Postfeminism and the Fatale Figure in Neo-Noir Cinema
ISBN: 1137503580 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137503589
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Описание: This book is a thought-provoking study that expands on film scholarship on noir and feminist scholarship on postfeminism, subjectivity, and representation to provide an inclusive, sophisticated, and up-to-date analysis of the femme fatale, fille fatale, and homme fatal from the classic era through to recent postmillennial neo-noir.

Автор: Gerber Cheryl
Название: Cherchez La Femme: New Orleans Women
ISBN: 1496825209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496825209
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Описание: Contributions by Constance Adler, Karen Celestan, Alison FensterStock, Kathy Finn, Helen Freund, Cheryl Gerber, Anne Gisleson, Cherice Harrison-Nelson, Karen Trahan Leathem, Katy Reckdahl, Melanie Warner Spencer, Sue Strachan, Kim Vaz-Deville, and Geraldine Wyckoff

New Orleans native Cheryl Gerber captures the vibrancy and diversity of New Orleans women in Cherchez la Femme: New Orleans Women. Inspired by the 2017 Women’s March in Washington, DC, Gerber’s book includes over two hundred photographs of the city’s most well-known women and the everyday women who make New Orleans so rich and diverse. Drawing from her own archives as well as new works, Gerber’s selection of photographs in Cherchez la Femme highlights the contributions of women to the city, making it one of the only photographic histories of modern New Orleans women.

Alongside Gerber’s photographs are twelve essays written by female writers about such women as Leah Chase, Irma Thomas, Mignon Faget, and Trixie Minx. Also featured are prominent groups of women that have made their mark on the city, like the Mardi Gras Indians, Baby Dolls, and the Krewe of Muses, among others. The book is divided into eleven chapters, each celebrating the women who add to New Orleans’s uniqueness, including entertainers, socialites, activists, musicians, chefs, entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders, and burlesque artists.

Автор: Lisanti, Tom Paul, Louis
Название: Film fatales
ISBN: 1476667977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476667973
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Описание: Profiled in this volume are 107 dazzling women, well-known and unknown, who had film and television appearances in the spy genre. Each profile includes a filmography that lists the actresses` more notable films. Some include the actresses` candid comments and anecdotes about their films and television shows, the people they worked with, and their feelings about acting in the spy genre.