| Description |
ix,238 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction to New Edition / E. Ann Kaplan -- Introduction to 1978 Edition / E. Ann Kaplan -- 1. Klute 1: A Contemporary Film Noir and Feminist Criticism / Christine Gledhill -- 2. Woman's Place: The Absent Family of Film Noir / Sylvia Harvey -- 3. Women in Film Noir / Janey Place -- 4. Duplicity in Mildred Pierce / Pam Cook -- 5. The Place of Women in Fritz Lang's The Blue Gardenia / E. Ann Kaplan -- 6. Double Indemnity / Claire Johnston -- 7. Klute 2: Feminism and Klute / Christine Gledhill -- 8. Resistance through Charisma: Rita Hayworth and Gilda / Richard Dyer -- 9. Postscript: Queers and Women in Film Noir / Richard Dyer -- 10. Female Spectator, Lesbian Spectre: The Haunting / Patricia White -- 11. Femme Fatale or Lesbian Femme: Bound in Sexual Differance / Chris Straayer -- 12. The Postmodern Always Rings Twice: Constructing the Femme Fatale in 90s Cinema / Kate Stables |
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13. The 'Dark Continent' of Film Noir: Race, Displacement and Metaphor in Tourneur's Cat People (1942) and Welles' The Lady from Shanghai (1948) / E. Ann Kaplan -- 14. 'Gilda Didn't Do Any of Those Things You've Been Losing Sleep Over!": The Central Women of 40s Films Noirs / Angela Martin |
| Analysis |
BLUE GARDENIA, THE (US, Fritz Lang, 1953) |
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BOUND (US, Larry Wachowski & Andy Wachowski, 1996) |
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CAT PEOPLE (US, Jacques Tourneur, 1942) |
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DOUBLE INDEMNITY (US, Billy Wilder, 1944) |
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FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA |
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FEMME FATALE |
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FILM NOIR |
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GILDA (US, Charles Vidor, 1946) |
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HAUNTING, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1963) |
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HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA |
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KLUTE (US, Alan J. Pakula, 1971) |
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LADY FROM SHANGHAI, THE (US, Orson Welles, 1948) |
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MILDRED PIERCE (US, Michael Curtis, 1945) |
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POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA |
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RACIAL STEREOTYPES IN FILMS |
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WOMEN IN FILMS |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-[234]) and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Femmes fatales in motion pictures.
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Film noir -- History and criticism.
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Film noir -- History.
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Film noir -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Film noir.
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Gangster films -- History and criticism.
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Women in motion pictures.
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| Author |
Kaplan, E. Ann.
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| LC no. |
99220747 |
| ISBN |
0851706657 (hbk.) |
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0851706665 (paperback) |
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