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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Femme Fatale"”.
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D. H. Lawrence and the 'Femme Fatale'
… used the literary and cultural stereotype of the femme fatale to justify and to express his fear of women. His fatal women, all terrifying, are of two distinct types: actively hostile, and indifferent. The first group appears in various forms: as seducers and betrayers, similar in their effects to …
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Bollywood Broads: Reconstructing the Femme Fatale in Popular Indian Film
… form has occurred. By borrowing the Femme Fatale from Film Noir and recreating her as the City Siren, Bollywood has achieved liberation for the heroine and from cultural emasculation in one. In this liberation, Bollywood has taken the Western implication of Eastern femininity and used …
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Performing "Camp, Vamp & Femme Fatale": Revisiting, Reinventing & Retelling the Lives of Post-Death, Retro-Gothic Women
… the production process for "Camp, Vamp and Femme Fatale," performed at the University of North Texas in April of 1997. The first chapter applies Henry Jenkins's theory of textual poaching to the authors' and cast's reappropriation of cultural narratives about female vampires. The chapter …
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She Had to be Bad: The Femme Fatale in Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Film Noir
<p>The character of the <em>femme fatale</em> exists as a highly stereotypical figure in American popular culture. Although the character’s antecedents are often located in the biblical figure of Eve, the <em>femme fatale</em> did not become a cultural icon until the publication of Hard-Boiled …
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The female fatale archetype in elechi amadi's the concubine and ferdinand oyono's hosueboy
The femme fatale concept has been there from time immemorial especially in Western culture. It is a male construct that stereotypes women, thereby perpetuating male dominance. This study, using the qualitative method, looks at the representation of the femme fatale in Western culture and in African …
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The female fatale archetype in elechi amadi's the concubine and ferdinand oyono's hosueboy
The femme fatale concept has been there from time immemorial especially in Western culture. It is a male construct that stereotypes women, thereby perpetuating male dominance. This study, using the qualitative method, looks at the representation of the femme fatale in Western culture and in African …
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Femme noir : a subcategory of neo noir film
… identifies a new subcategory of film noir, the femme noir. Traditional film noir films use gendered binaries, male gaze and scopophilic treatment of the female characters to limit and fragment women characters. This dynamic is most obvious in the binary between the ‘looking’ male protagonist and …
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Étude mythocritique de la femme fatale dans Madame Bovary de Flaubert: l'archétype modifié par le thème de la souffrance chez Emma Bovary
… entre l'archétype (en mythologie) de la «femme fatale» et Emma Bovary. S'appuyant sur la méthodologie de la mythocritique et la théorie des symboles, la thèse révèle, dans un premier temps, les correspondances entre Emma et l'archétype en question. Dans un deuxième temps, il s'agit de …
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The Emergence of the Feminist Fatale in American Film Noir
The femme fatale, a quasi-eternal figure of female transgression and retributory violence, has gradually entered popular culture’s symbolic lexicon as representative of mainstream feminism and postmodern femininity. Tracing the development of the femme fatale into a feminist pop culture icon …
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A comparative study of gender representations in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials and its Chinese translation
… the invention of daemons, the reinvention of ‘femme fatale’, and the new portrayal of Gypsy women. Secondly, the thesis aims at comparing and examining how gender representations in the source text are translated, transformed or / and manipulated in its Chinese translation. With reference to …
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Whoever Said Change Was Good: The Transforming Body of the Disney Villainess
… ballet conventions, and the Hollywood femme fatale, and explore how they constellate social understandings of age, beauty, and desirability. Coalescing around the theme of physical transformation, the study investigates how consistent movement patterns both support character animation …
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Illegitimate Celebrity in the British Long Eighteenth Century
… discussions about contemporary celebrities, the femme fatale, the bad boy, the child star, and the wannabe have become accepted and even celebrated figures. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, however, actors and actresses who challenged acceptable strategies for celebrity …
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Monstrous and Beautiful: Jungian Archetypes in Wilde’s <em>Salomé</em>
… Wilde's re-vision of the myth of that biblical femme fatale. I argue that in fashioning a tragic heroine out of a female monster figure of “Immortal Vice”, Oscar Wilde created a document that captures two contradictory narratives: one in which Salomé plays the heroine of a tragedy and another in …
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Failure to Deliver: Transitional Masculinities in Late and Post Francoist Films (1963--1984)
… but also of traditional gender roles. Cast as a femme fatale, a mother who leaves her daughter to her transsexual ex-lover, or as a lesbian jail chick, her image renders a satiric comment at the same time that opens a world of endless possibility when gender ascriptions are concerned. (Abstract …
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Vom Buch zum Film: zur Frage der Adaptation bei Sternberg, Schlöndorff und Tykwer
… Oskar's mother takes on the role of a femme fatale. In Das Parfum, the main character's sexual drive is less important than his characterization as a lonely individual. Each of my three main chapters deals with one of the above examples, examining in depth how diverse aspects of the …
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Broadway noir: Film noir and musical comedy in City of Angels (1989)
… lines, namely the private investigator and femme fatale, to show how those models inform the show’s gendered characterization. It exposits indices for the 1940s and the classic Hollywood era, all pointing toward a framework where the musical comedy can function as a cultural history.
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Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction
… for the Enemy,” questions the easily defined femme fatale category of sensation novels and argues that Lady Audley’s actions in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret can be attributed to her role as someone that affects the wrong way. Readers cannot entirely sympathize with Lady Audley …
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Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Identity in the European Novel
… national purity, and a wealthy blond Germanic femme fatale, who breaks up the impending union of the first two."
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'Little Red Riding Hood' in the 21st Century: adaptation, archetypes, and the appropriation of a fairy tale
… as the child, the innocent victim, the femme-fatale, and the monstrous feminine. The rationale behind the thesis is threefold; firstly, ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ is typically understood as a cautionary tale, rather than a female quest narrative, therefore, I will explore how the tale is …
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