Women in Film Noir

Produktbeschreibung

The first edition of 'Women in Film Noir' (1978) assembled a group of scholars and critics committed to understanding the cinema in terms of gender, sexuality, politics, psychoanalysis and semiotics. This edition is expanded to include further essays which reflect the 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. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 spectator 'The
Haunting', Patricia White; femme fatale or lesbian femme 'Bound' in sexual
difference, Chris Straayer; the postmodern always rings twice constructing the
femme fatale in 1990's cinema, Kate Stables; the 'dark continent' of Film Noir
race, displacement and metaphor in 'Cat People' and 'The Lady from Shanghai', E.
Ann Kaplan; 'Gilda' didn't do any of those things you've been losing sleep over
the central women in 1940s Film Noir, Angela Martin. 

Autoreninfo

E. Ann Kaplan is Professor of English at the Stony Brook University, New York, USA, where she also directs the Humanities Institute.