{"product_id":"the-femme-fatale-quick-takes-movies-and-popular-culture-9780813598253","title":"The Femme Fatale Quick Takes Movies and Popular","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eKilling Eve\u003c\/i\u003e’s Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, considering how this figure embodies Hollywood’s contradictory attitudes toward female ambition, independence, and sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating exploration of Hollywood’s most notorious female that goes beyond film noir. With a focus on the performance of gender as subversive and empowered, Grossman illuminates over a century of femme fatales from silent cinema’s 'Vamp' Theda Bara to television’s \u003ci\u003eKilling Eve\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -- Philippa Gates * author of Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this lively and engaging book, Julie Grossman elegantly traces the long tradition of the femme fatale figure in film, television and popular culture. She deftly analyses a diverse range of characters, from Theda Bara’s vamp in early Hollywood, the hard-boiled dames of classic Film Noir, to the complex and vibrant Villanelle in contemporary television’s \u003ci\u003eKilling Eve\u003c\/i\u003e. Grossman persuasively illustrates the centrality of role performance to these femme fatale figures, and establishes performance as a key mode by which they resist inequalities in social structures. This book provides both a history of how women have been represented, and a compelling case for the relevance of the femme fatale to contemporary debates on gender politics.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Helen Hanson * author of Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1          “Theda Bara and Barbara Stanwyck’s “Baby Face”: Exoticism and the Street-Smart Vamp”\u003cbr\u003e 2          Wartime and Postwar Film Noir, Neo-Noir, and the Femme Fatale\u003cbr\u003e 3          Tracy Flick, and Television’s Unruly Women\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Selected Filmography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405802217815,"sku":"9780813598253","price":53.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813598253.jpg?v=1730493670","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-femme-fatale-quick-takes-movies-and-popular-culture-9780813598253","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}