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9780821412701

Dangerous Dames : Women and Representation in the Weimar Street Film and Film Noir

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  • ISBN13:

    9780821412701

  • ISBN10:

    0821412701

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-05-01
  • Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $39.95

Summary

Both film noir and the Weimar street film hold a continuing fascination for film spectators and film theorists alike. The female characters, especially the alluring femmes fatales, remain a focus for critical and popular attention. In the tradition of such attention, Dangerous Dames focuses on the femme fatale and her antithesis, the femme attrapee. Unlike most theorists, Jans Wager examines these archetypes from the perspective of the female spectator and rejects the persistence of vision that allows a reading of these female characters only as representations of unstable postwar masculinity. Professor Wager suggests that the woman in the audience has always seen and understood these characters as representations of a complex aspect of her existences.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Shot---Reverse Shot xiii
PART ONE: RETHINKING PARADIGMS
Methodologies: Who's Seeing Whom: Representation and Identification
3(6)
Melodrama and Women
9(10)
The Weimar Street Film and Film Noir as Crime Melodrama
Femmes Fatales and Femmes Attrapees
PART TWO: WEIMAR CONTEXTS AND TEXTS
The Weimar Years: The Weimar Republic and Weimar Cinema
19(8)
The Street Rules: The Weimar Street Film and The Street
27(9)
Female Desire: The Variegated Nature of Desire in Variety
36(16)
Female Agency and Its Lack
52(21)
The Femme Fatale Gains (Possible) Admittance in Aspbalt
Prototype Noir: M as Film Noir?
PART THREE: FILM NOIR CONTEXTS AND TEXTS
The Noir Years: U.S. War and Postwar Culture and Cinema, 1941-1958
73(11)
The Stuff of Dreams: Film Noir and the Maltese Falcon
84(8)
Why Do You Have to Murder People? The Femme Fatale and Femme Attrapee in Gun Crazy
92(11)
Film Noir Traps All Femmes: All Women Are Femmes Fatales in The Big Heat
103(14)
PART FOUR: PASTS AND PRESENTS
Reflections: Women and Representation in the Weimar Street Film and Film Noir
117(6)
Noir Now: U.S. Retro-Noir, German Neo-Noir, U.S. Neo-Noir
123(12)
U.S. Retro-Noir: Race and Gender in Devil in a Blue Dress
German Neo-Noir: Happy Birthday Turk
U.S. Neo-Noir: Survival of the Fittest in The Last Seduction
Notes 135(8)
References 143(6)
Index 149

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