Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir

Grossman, Julie

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“…As noted, the femme fatale, one of noir's most common character types, generally refers to the central female character who leads men to danger. Although the femme fatale's aggressiveness or deadliness varies, it is often believed that this figure's presence in Hollywood noirish crime films mirrored male anxiety triggered by women's changing roles in postwar society (Grossman 2009). As a cinematic incarnation of independent women working outside their home during and following World War II, the femme fatale reflects patriarchal society's fear that these women may threaten male authority (Place 1998).…”

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Revising the Noir Formula in the Chinese Context: Black Coal, Thin Ice and Beyond

Zhou

2024

Arts

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Noir can be seen as a formula with a set of distinguishable thematic, narrative, and aesthetic elements matured in postwar Hollywood and later recycled, refined, or resisted by filmmakers worldwide. In the past decade, a handful of noirish crime films produced in People’s Republic of China particularly reworked this formula to articulate local concerns, one example being Black Coal, Thin Ice. By attempting a comparative analysis of this movie’s characterization with the noir formula’s conventional portrayal, this essay argues that Black Coal, Thin Ice revises the noir formula by drawing more attention to the noir killer’s plight as a demoralized state worker and deconstructing the formulaic presence of the femme fatale as a deadly and powerful seductress. Moving beyond the Black Coal, Thin Ice case, the essay also posits that the recent Chinese noirish crime films’ fusing of stylized chiaroscuro with color lighting to register various existential and psychological concerns enriches the chiaroscuro aesthetic of the noir formula.

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Revising the Noir Formula in the Chinese Context: Black Coal, Thin Ice and Beyond

Zhou

2024

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“…13. For en gjennomgang av ulike tilnaerminger til femme fatale-skikkelsen, se Julie Grossman (2009).…”

Section: Film Noir : En Omdiskutert Sjangerunclassified

Kvinner, krig og kjærlighet. TorborgNedreaas’ novellesamlingBak skapet står øksen(1945)i lys avfilm noir

Hamm

2020

Edda

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Torborg Nedreaas' novellesamling Bak skapet står øksen (1945) skildrer forholdene i Norge under den tyske okkupasjonen (1940-45). Denne artikkelen viser at stilen i novellesamlingen ligner på den som utmerker samtidens film noir og at Nedreaas trenger den gåtefulle estetikken for å fange krigstidens erfaring. Krigshendelsene vanskeliggjør ekteskapelig liv, seksuelt begjaer og tradisjonelle familieforhold, og de tvinger frem en fundamental tvil på alle og alt. Det resulterer i et estetisk uttrykk preget av skeive kameravinkler og mørke rom i film, og skiftende fortellerperspektiver og skildringer av landskap i tåke hos Nedreaas. Å lese Bak skapet står øksen sammen med film noir øker vår forståelse av den skeptisismen som truer hverdagen i Nedreaas' tidlige noveller. Samtidig blir det tydelig at novellene inneholder alternative tolkninger av kvinneskikkelser som i noir-filmene har blitt til de mye omdiskuterte femmes fatales.

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“…The femme fatale is described as a masculine projection and expression of masculine anxieties and fears, caused by colonial loss, political crisis and growth of feminine independence by several feminist authors, such as Rebecca Stott (1992), Julie Grossman (2009), Mary Ann Doane (1991, and Helene Hanson and Catherine O' Rawe (2010).…”

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The Geopolitics of Emilia Pardo Bazán’s La Quimera: Femme Fatale as Split Feminist Subject

Cuzovic-Severn¹

2017

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences

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Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir

Cited by 51 publications

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Revising the Noir Formula in the Chinese Context: Black Coal, Thin Ice and Beyond

Revising the Noir Formula in the Chinese Context: Black Coal, Thin Ice and Beyond

Kvinner, krig og kjærlighet. TorborgNedreaas’ novellesamlingBak skapet står øksen(1945)i lys avfilm noir

The Geopolitics of Emilia Pardo Bazán’s La Quimera: Femme Fatale as Split Feminist Subject

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