Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir: Ready for Her Close-up
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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.
List of Figures viiiAcknowledgments xIntroduction: "No One Mourns the Wicked" 1Part I Rereading Film Noir 191 Film Noir's "Femmes Fatales": Moving Beyond Gender Fantasies 212 "Well, aren't we ambitious": Desire, Domesticity, and the "Femme Fatale," or "You've made up your mind I'm guilty": The Long Reach of Misreadings of Woman as Wicked in American Film Noir 413 Psychological Disorders and "Wiretapping the Unconscious": Film Noir Listens to Women 67Part II Film Noir's Janus Face 914 Looking Back-Victorinoir: Modern Women and the Fatal(e) Progeny of Victorian Representations 935 Looking Forward: Deconstructing the "Femme Fatale" 132Notes 153Works Cited 161Index 168
