Women in Film Noir

by Kaplan, E.Ann

• ISBN13: 9780851706665
• ISBN10: 0851706665
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-27
• Publisher: British Film Institute

Summary

Published in 1978, the first edition of this text assembled scholars and critics committed to understanding the cinema in terms of gender, sexuality, politics, psychoanalysis and semiotics. This edition is expanded to include essays which explore "neo-noir", postmodernism and other trends.

Table of Contents

Klute 1 - a contemporary Film Noir and feminist criticism, Christine Gledhill--woman's place - the absent family of Film Noir, Sylvia Harvey--women in Film Noir, Janey Place--duplicity in "Mildred Pierce", Pam Cook--the place of women in Fritz Lang's "The Blue Gardenia", E. Ann Kaplan--"Double Indemnity", Claire Johnston--"Klute" 2 - feminism and "Klute", Christine Gledhill--resistance through charisma - Rita Hayworth and "Gilda", Richard Dyer--postscript - queers and women in Film Noir, Richard Dyer--female spectator, lesbian spectator - "The Haunting", Patricia White--femme fatale or lesbian femme - "Bound" in sexual difference, Chris Straayer--the postmodern always rings twice - constructing the femme fatale in 1990's cinema, Kate Stables--the "dark continent" of Film Noir - race, displacement and metaphor in "Cat People" and "The Lady from Shanghai", E. Ann Kaplan--"Gilda" didn't do any of those things you've been losing sleep over - the central women in 1940s Film Noir, Angela Martin.