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Informationen zum Autor JULIE GROSSMAN is a professor of English and communication and film studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. Her books about film, television, literature, and gender include Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition (with Therese Grisham), Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir: Ready for Her Close-Up , Adaptation and ElasTEXTity: Literature, Film, and Their Hideous Progeny , and Twin Peaks (with Will Scheibel). Klappentext This book offers readers a concise look at over a century of femmes fatales on both the silver screen and the TV screen, from Theda Bara and Barbara Stanwyck to Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, considering how this figure embodies Hollywood’s contradictory attitudes toward female ambition, independence, and sexuality. Zusammenfassung Takes a long view on the figure of the femme fatale, exploring her style, language, and stories from silent cinema to contemporary television. Julie Grossman explores the notions of female ambition, frustration, and intelligence that undergird the power and fascination of the femme fatale across time and media. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction 1 "Theda Bara and Barbara Stanwyck's "Baby Face": Exoticism and the Street-Smart Vamp" 2 Wartime and Postwar Film Noir, Neo-Noir, and the Femme Fatale 3 Tracy Flick, and Television's Unruly Women Acknowledgements Further Reading Works Cited Selected Filmography Index
