{"product_id":"the-femme-fatale-quick-takes-movies-popular-culture-9780813598246","title":"The Femme Fatale Quick Takes Movies  Popular","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTakes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\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 \"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\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":49405802348887,"sku":"9780813598246","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813598246.jpg?v=1730493671","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-femme-fatale-quick-takes-movies-popular-culture-9780813598246","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}