The Alluring and Manipulative "Spider Women" of the Silver Screen: Femmes Fatales of the Hard-Boiled Fiction, Classic Noir and Contemporary Noir Periods

This thesis delves into three categories of femmes fatales: the ones of hard-boiled fiction/classic noir and contemporary noir. Moreover, it generates several comparisons among those aforementioned categories, and extrapolates on them. Third wave feminism and how it draws relevance/is significant to the Bound and The Last Seduction films is additionally explored in this thesis. This thesis will discuss the similarities of the femmes fatales of the '30s/1940s-50s and contemporary noir (1980s-90s), while delving into differences between them.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Film, Theatre, and Communication Arts

Year

2008

Author dc:creator

• Brinker, Gretchen

Contributors dc:contributor

• McGowan-Hartmann, John
• Daniel, Debra
• Day, Christine

• femmes fatales film noir

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/887

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1867