@article{339142, author = {Grossman, Julie,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/339142}, title = {Rethinking the femme fatale in film noir : ready for her close-up /}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,}, abstract = {"In the context of nineteenth-century Victorinoir and close readings of original-cycle film noir, Julie Grossman argues that the presence of the 'femme fatale' figure, as she is understood in film criticism and popular culture, is drastically over-emphasized and has helped to sustain cultural obsessions with 'bad' women"--Provided by publisher.}, recid = {339142}, pages = {xi, 176 p. :}, address = {Basingstoke, UK ;}, year = {2009}, }