Research Catalog
The femme fatale
- Title
- The femme fatale / Julie Grossman.
- Author
- Grossman, Julie, 1962-
- Publication
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
- ©2020
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- Description
- 162 pages; 19 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Quick takes : movies and popular culture
- Uniform Title
- Quick takes.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-150), filmography (pages 151-152) and index.
- Contents
- Theda Bara and Barbara Stanwyck's "Baby face": exoticism and the street-smart vamp -- Wartime and postwar film noir, neo-noir, and the femme fatale -- Tracy Flick and television's unruly women.
- Call Number
- MFL 21-1242
- ISBN
- 9780813598246
- 0813598249
- 9780813598253
- 0813598257
- LCCN
- 2019052763
- OCLC
- 1128888288
- Author
- Grossman, Julie, 1962- author.
- Title
- The femme fatale / Julie Grossman.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Quick takes : movies and popular cultureQuick takes.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-150), filmography (pages 151-152) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 21-1242