Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir: Ready for Her Close-Up

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.

Author: J. Grossman
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/21/2009
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9781349313341

About the Author
JULIE GROSSMAN is Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English, Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College, New York, USA. She is co-editor of A Due Voci: The Photography of Rita Hammond and has published articles on film noir, Francis Ford Coppola, Todd Haynes, Oscar Wilde and Karen Finley, and Thomas Hardy and Henry James.

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