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Women in Film Noir (British Film Institute Books)
Women in Film Noir - British Film Institute Books Author:E. Ann Kaplan (Editor) Women in Film Noir is one of the classic course texts of film studies, a groundbreaking attempt to chart the ways in which meanings and fantasies are produced in film noir through representations of the femme fatal and other female roles. First published in 1978, Women in Film Noir assembled a group of scholars and critics committe... more »d to understanding the cinema in terms of gender, sexuality, politics, psychoanalysis, and semiotics. This work remains fresh and insightful and is reprinted here.
For this new expanded edition, the editor has brought together further essays that reflect renewed interest in film noir. Exploring "neo-noir," postmodernism, and other contemporary trends, new essays offer readings of, among others, Bound and Basic Instinct, broadening the scope of the book to include questions of race and homosexuality.
Klute 1: a contemporary film noir and feminist criticism / Christine Gledhill --
Woman's place: the absent family of film noir / Sylvia Harvey --
Women in film noir / Janey Place --
Duplicity in Mildred Pierce / Pam Cook --
The place of women in Fritz Lang's The Blue Gardenia / E. 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 diffeÌrance / 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. Ann Kaplan --
'Gilda didn't do any of those things you've been losing sleep over!': the central women of 40s films noirs / Angela Martin« less