Postfeminism and the Fatale Figure in Neo-Noir Cinema

Informationen zum Autor Samantha Lindop is an academic at the Schools of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland, Australia. Klappentext 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 . Zusammenfassung 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 . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Beyond the Limits of Noir Scholarship 1. What Makes Those Dames so Deadly? 2. The New Fatale: 1980–1999 3. Mad, Bad, and Queer 4. Con-Artists, Valkyries, and Revenge Seekers 5. What are (Fatal) Little Girls Made of? 6. Playtime is Over 7. Duplicity, Desire, and the Deadly Man 8. Turning the Spotlight on the Homme Fatal Notes Selected Filmography Works Cited

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beyond the Limits of Noir Scholarship
1. What Makes Those Dames so Deadly?
2. The New Fatale: 1980-1999
3. Mad, Bad, and Queer
4. Con-Artists, Valkyries, and Revenge Seekers
5. What are (Fatal) Little Girls Made of?
6. Playtime is Over
7. Duplicity, Desire, and the Deadly Man
8. Turning the Spotlight on the Homme Fatal
Notes
Selected Filmography
Works Cited

Product details

• Authors: Samantha Lindop
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.08.2015
• EAN: 9781137503589
• ISBN: 978-1-137-50358-9
• No. of pages: 209
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; B, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Feminism, Performing Arts, Communication, Film History, Media and Communication, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Film and Television Studies, Film and TV History, Screen Studies, Motion pictures—History, Motion pictures and television, Film history, theory & criticism