Table of Contents: “…10 "This Is Where He Brought Me: 10,000 Acres of Nothing!": The Femme Fatale and other Film Noir Tropes in Delmer Daves' Jubal --…”
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Table of Contents: “…The "Femininity" Game of Deception: Female Jew, femme fatale Orientale, and belle Juive /…”
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Table of Contents: “…Ann Kaplan -- Double indemnity / Claire Johnston -- Klute 2: feminism and Klute / Christine Gledhill -- Resistance through charisma: Rita Hayworth and Gilda / Richard Dyer -- Postscript: queers and women in film noir / Richard Dyer -- Female spectator, lesbian spectre: The Haunting / Patricia White -- Femme fatale or lesbian femme: bound in sexual différance / Chris Straayer -- The postmodern always rings twice: constructing the femme fatale in 90s cinema / Kate Stables -- The 'Dark Continet' of film noir: race displacement and metaphor in Tourneur's Cat People (1942) and Welles' The Lady From Shanghai (1948) / E. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Cross-dressing, aspiration, and transformation -- Cowgirl tales --Action women : muscles, mothers, and others -- Investigating women : work, criminality, and sexuality -- New Hollywood, new film noir, and the femme fatale -- Female friendship : melodrama, romance, feminism -- Acting funny : comedy and authority -- Music, video, cinema : singers and movie stars -- performers and producers.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A New Breed of Sex Robots and Sex Dolls -- Under the Skin: The Fabricated Femme Fatale -- Female Robot Caretakers, Doubles, and Companions -- Paradoxes of Perfection: A Servant No More -- Virtual Voices: Talking Barbie Dolls, Alexa, Bitchin' Betty, and More -- Coda.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Femme fatale -- Do-it-yourself rainbows -- Living without a life -- The way it is -- Livin and learnin -- Sure is a shame -- The bank of life -- Yellow House Road -- Somebody for everybody -- A will and a way.…”

Table of Contents: “…A murder in Burbank -- A life on the lam -- A femme fatale on trial -- Crime doesn't pay -- An execution in California -- Executing women in America -- I want to live! …”

Table of Contents: “…'A Lass Unparalleled' -- 2. The Femme Fatale -- 3. A Kinder, Gentler Cleopatra -- 4. …”
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Table of Contents: “…A murder in Burbank -- A life on the lam -- A femme fatale on trial -- Crime doesn't pay -- An execution in California -- Executing women in America -- I want to live! …”
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Table of Contents: “…Silent divas of Italian cinema / Guy Maddin -- The geography of a book -- Cultural events and the diva film -- Mater Dolorosa -- Theory and technology -- The shape of time: Élan Vital and Memento Mori -- Laocoön's filmstrips: classicism, Marxism, Vitalism -- Orientalism: Ballets Russes, occultism, Canudo -- Wings of desire: aviation, fashion, circus stunts -- History and analysis -- Acting: prostitution, vertigo, close-up -- Modern women: minor stars and the short film -- Tropes: obsessions and traumas of a genre -- Nino Oxilia: blue blood and satanic rhapsody -- Beyond the femme fatale -- Biographical profiles of actresses.…”
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