The nasty woman and the neo femme fatale in contemporary cinema
- Submitting institution
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University of Bedfordshire
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 7816537
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138586444
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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8 - RIMAP - Research Institute for Media, Art and Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The Nasty Woman and the Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema puts forward the theoretical notion of the ‘nasty woman’ as a means of examining female protagonists in contemporary culture and cinema, particularly films directed by women. It is a sustained argument which draws from the figure of the femme fatale in film noir and argues for the relevance of film analysis to the MeToo movement. It takes a examines Zero Dark Thirty, Stories we Tell and Gone Girl.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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