The contemporary femme fatale: gender, genre and American cinema
- Submitting institution
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University of Sussex
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 330584_69766
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138670662
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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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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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The Contemporary Femme Fatale (Routledge, 2018) is an 80,000-word monograph, based on 6 years of research. The book provides detailed analysis of 30 films, most of which have previously received little critical attention and draws on a further 120 films and television programmes. The book is interdisciplinary and draws together feminist film theory, genre theory, girls’ studies, nostalgia studies, queer theory, feminist cultural studies, and posthumanist feminist theory to challenge the generic isolation of the femme fatale, and to argue that a more capacious approach offers a vital lens for considering representations of female agency in contemporary mainstream cinema.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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