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The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema. From sci-fi alien women to teenage bad girls, filmmakers continue to draw on the notion of the sexy deadly woman in ways which traverse boundaries of genre and narrative. This book charts the articulations of the femme fatale in American cinema of the past twenty years, and contends that, despite her problematic relationship with feminism, she offers a vital means for reading the connections between mainstream cinema and representations of female agency. The films discussed raise questions about the limits and potential of positioning women who meet highly normative standards of beauty as powerful icons of female agency. They point towards the constant shifting between patriarchal appropriation and feminist recuperation that inevitably accompanies such representations within mainstream media contexts.

Author Biography:

Katherine Farrimond is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research focuses on the intersections of the body, sexuality and gender in contemporary popular film and television. She has published work on the femme fatale, genre, nostalgia and virginity.
Release date Australia
July 13th, 2017
Pages
192
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
ISBN-13
9781138670662
Product ID
26781579

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