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America's Femme Fatale

Author : Jane Simon Ammeson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 168435160X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book America's Femme Fatale written by Jane Simon Ammeson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a Norwegian farm girl become an infamous American serial killer, responsible for upward of 40 murders? Born in rural Norway in 1859, "Belle" Storset Sorenson Gunness was constantly dealt bad hands in life—so she decided to take life into her own hands. In America's Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness, Jane Simon Ammeson traces Gunness's path from a poor teenager rejected by a wealthy lover; to a new wife in Chicago, desperate to escape the poverty of her childhood and impatient for a child to love; to an ambitious, widowed landowner in La Porte, Indiana. Ammeson's careful research reveals how the young immigrant slowly turned into one of America's most dangerous serial killers, allegedly murdering husbands, lovers, and children, and, for a price, disposing of inconvenient corpses for others. Ammeson brings this shocking story to life, detailing the suspicious neighbors who were cowed into silence by Belle's intimidating personality, the culture of orphanages trafficking children and matrimonial agencies, the carnival atmosphere that exploded around the pile of bones found on Gunness's farm, and the sensational reporting that filled newspapers for months. Perfect for true crime fans fascinated by the creation of a sociopathic serial killer, America's Femme Fatale will leave you entertained and looking over your shoulder.

Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction

Author : Maysaa Husam Jaber
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137356472
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction written by Maysaa Husam Jaber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in direct opposition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny.

The Femme Fatale in American Literature

Author : Ghada Sasa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781613363423
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book The Femme Fatale in American Literature written by Ghada Sasa and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Bronze E-Book Edition for institutional buyers provides web reader access and download of an abridged version in PDF and device formats.

Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale

Author : Caroline Blyth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567680010
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale written by Caroline Blyth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Samson and Delilah in Judges 16 has been studied and retold over the centuries by biblical interpreters, artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers. Within these scholarly and cultural retellings, Delilah is frequently fashioned as the quintessential femme fatale - the shamelessly seductive 'fatal woman' whose sexual treachery ultimately leads to Samson's downfall. Yet these ubiquitous portrayals of Delilah as femme fatale tend to eclipse the many other viable readings of her character that lie, underexplored, within the ambiguity-laden narrative of Judges 16 - interpretations that offer alternative and more sympathetic portrayals of her biblical persona. In Reimagining Delilah's Afterlives as Femme Fatale, Caroline Blyth guides readers through an in-depth exploration of Delilah's afterlives as femme fatale in both biblical interpretation and popular culture, tracing the social and historical factors that may have inspired them. She then considers alternative afterlives for Delilah's character, using as inspiration both the Judges 16 narrative and a number of cultural texts which deconstruct traditional understandings of the femme fatale, thereby inviting readers to view this iconic biblical character in new and fascinating lights.

The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts

Author : Helen Hanson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230282016
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts written by Helen Hanson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in contemporary cinema.

The Femme Fatale in American Literature

Author : Ghada Suleiman Sasa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Femme Fatale in American Literature written by Ghada Suleiman Sasa and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characters in the literary tradition of American naturalism are usually perceived as passive, lacking in will, weak, and predetermined. They are constantly seen as the victims of heredity and environment, and their lives are shaped according to these strong forces that operate upon them. This interesting book examines the representation of female characters in American naturalism and argues that women in American naturalism are often represented as femmes fatales. Since heredity and environment are the determining factors in their lives, they are victims who have no control. However, with characters such as Trina Sieppe in Frank Norris's McTeague, Caroline Meeber in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, and Helga Crane in Nella Larsen's Quicksand, these women victims gradually turn themselves into victimizers in order to conquer both heredity and environment. They consciously and deliberately use the only power they have that can help them overcome the naturalistic world in which they are entrapped--the power of the feminine. The book explains who exactly the femme fatale that has been born out of American naturalism is, and explores images of women in American realism who precede the femme fatale of American naturalism. This study examines characters like Trina Sieppe, Caroline Meeber, Edna Pontellier, and Helga Crane. It analyzes these women's backgrounds, their demeanors, their temperaments, their experiences, and their settings, and explains how and when each woman decides to use her sexuality. There is also a brief discussion of other femmes fatales in American naturalism, such as Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Although the perception of women in nineteenth-century American literature has always had its place in discussions of literary texts, this book is unique in its argument that women in American naturalism are neither weak nor passive, but rather are strong and daring women who try diligently to find a means of fighting back. This book is an important addition to collections in literature and Women's studies.

The Femme Fatale

Author : Julie Grossman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813598265
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Femme Fatale written by Julie Grossman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ostensibly the villain, but also a model of female power, poise, and intelligence, the femme fatale embodies Hollywood’s contradictory attitudes toward ambitious women. But how has the figure of the femme fatale evolved over time, and to what extent have these changes reflected shifting cultural attitudes toward female independence and sexuality? This book offers readers a concise look at over a century of femmes fatales on both the silver screen and the TV screen. Starting with ethnically exoticized silent film vamps like Theda Bara and Pola Negri, it examines classic film noir femmes fatales like Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity, as well as postmodern revisions of the archetype in films like Basic Instinct and Memento. Finally, it explores how contemporary film and television creators like Fleabag and Killing Eve’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge have appropriated the femme fatale in sympathetic and surprising ways. Analyzing not only the films themselves, but also studio press kits and reviews, The Femme Fatale considers how discourses about the pleasures and dangers of female performance are projected onto the figure of the femme fatale. Ultimately, it is a celebration of how “bad girl” roles have provided some of Hollywood’s most talented actresses opportunities to fully express their on-screen charisma.

The Evil Twins of American Television

Author : Kristi Rowan Humphreys
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149858330X
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Evil Twins of American Television written by Kristi Rowan Humphreys and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evil Twins of American Television examines evil-twin depictions in over fifty years of television, comparing male twins to female twins and male-writer depictions to female-writer depictions. Kristi Rowan Humphreys evaluates The Patty Duke Show, Bewitched, Gilligan’s Island, I Dream of Jeannie, and The Brady Bunch, among other television programs that use the twinning trope to explore themes of feminism and identity. Employing traits identified by Betty Friedan in The Feminine Mystique as belonging to the “evil” side of her “schizophrenic split” theory, Humphreys analyzes the ways in which these alter ego characters embody the desire for a separate self and independence through loose inhibitions, career interests, political interests, intellectual prowess, and assertiveness. This book then compares female-written twin episodes to male-written twin episodes, finding that when “evil twin” episodes are written by women writers, the twins are presented less as oppositional binaries and more as compatible, often symbiotic binaries. Thus, the women writers of these shows offer a compelling response to Friedan’s text, one that acknowledges and underscores the many complexities of women—the image of which cannot in reality be so easily split into two oppositional binaries. Humphreys then connects 1960s depictions to more current evil-twin examples, including those in Friends, Knight Rider, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

Femme Fatales

Author : Eugene Ed Major
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781451254785
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book Femme Fatales written by Eugene Ed Major and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rockstar Games and American History

Author : Esther Wright
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110716615
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Rockstar Games and American History by : Esther Wright

Download or read book Rockstar Games and American History written by Esther Wright and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two decades, Rockstar Games have been making games that interrogate and represent the idea of America, past and present. Commercially successful, fan-beloved, and a frequent source of media attention, Rockstar’s franchises are positioned as not only game-changing, ground-breaking interventions in the games industry, but also as critical, cultural histories on America and its excesses. But what does Rockstar’s version of American history look like, and how is it communicated through critically acclaimed titles like Red Dead Redemption (2010) and L.A. Noire (2011)? By combining analysis of Rockstar’s games and a range of official communications and promotional materials, this book offers critical discussion of Rockstar as a company, their video games, and ultimately, their attempts at creating new narratives about U.S. history and culture. It explores the ways in which Rockstar’s brand identity and their titles coalesce to create a new kind of video game history, how promotional materials work to claim the "authenticity" of these products, and assert the authority of game developers to perform the role of historian. By working at the intersection of historical game studies, U.S. history, and film and media studies, this book explores what happens when contemporary demands for historical authenticity are brought to bear on the way we envisage the past –– and whose past it is deemed to be. Ultimately, this book implores those who research historical video games to consider the oft-forgotten sources at the margins of these games as importance spaces where historical meaning is made and negotiated.

Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction

Author : Maysaa Husam Jaber
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137356472
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction written by Maysaa Husam Jaber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in direct opposition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny.

Homosexuality in Cold War America

Author : Robert J. Corber
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822319641
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Homosexuality in Cold War America written by Robert J. Corber and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, this book examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet.

The Contemporary Femme Fatale

Author : Katherine Farrimond
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317208188
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Femme Fatale written by Katherine Farrimond and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema. From sci-fi alien women to teenage bad girls, filmmakers continue to draw on the notion of the sexy deadly woman in ways which traverse boundaries of genre and narrative. This book charts the articulations of the femme fatale in American cinema of the past twenty years, and contends that, despite her problematic relationship with feminism, she offers a vital means for reading the connections between mainstream cinema and representations of female agency. The films discussed raise questions about the limits and potential of positioning women who meet highly normative standards of beauty as powerful icons of female agency. They point towards the constant shifting between patriarchal appropriation and feminist recuperation that inevitably accompanies such representations within mainstream media contexts.

America Is Elsewhere

Author : Erik Dussere
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199969922
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book America Is Elsewhere written by Erik Dussere and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study conceives the literary and cinematic category of 'noir' as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post-World War II America. It analyses works of fiction and film in order to argue that both contribute to a 'noir tradition' that is initiated around the end of World War II and continues to develop and evolve in the present.

Race in American Film [3 volumes]

Author : Daniel Bernardi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313398402
Total Pages : 1127 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis Race in American Film [3 volumes] by : Daniel Bernardi

Download or read book Race in American Film [3 volumes] written by Daniel Bernardi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 1127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expansive three-volume set investigates racial representation in film, providing an authoritative cross-section of the most racially significant films, actors, directors, and movements in American cinematic history. Hollywood has always reflected current American cultural norms and ideas. As such, film provides a window into attitudes about race and ethnicity over the last century. This comprehensive set provides information on hundreds of films chosen based on scholarly consensus of their importance regarding the subject, examining aspects of race and ethnicity in American film through the historical context, themes, and people involved. This three-volume set highlights the most important films and artists of the era, identifying films, actors, or characterizations that were considered racist, were tremendously popular or hugely influential, attempted to be progressive, or some combination thereof. Readers will not only learn basic information about each subject but also be able to contextualize it culturally, historically, and in terms of its reception to understand what average moviegoers thought about the subject at the time of its popularity—and grasp how the subject is perceived now through the lens of history.

Hollywood Genres and Postwar America

Author : Mike Chopra-Gant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857713280
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Genres and Postwar America written by Mike Chopra-Gant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a clear and engrossing account of how popular films in America just after the close of the Second World War played out America's mood at that crucial time. It is also a revisionist challenge to received scholarly understanding of this mood, which has tended to be seen as characterized by an abiding pessimism most clearly manifested in the films noir of the period. Chopra-Gant makes here an important contribution to film genre, which proposes that the 'noir and Zeitgeist' reading is based on the retrospective promotion of selected movies. He turns to the top box office successes of the period, including "Best Years of our Lives", "The Jolson Story" and "Two Years Before the Mast", finding that these films emphasise rather the triumph of American beliefs in democracy, classlessness and individualism. They deploy positive, performative masculinities and the pleasures of male friendships and celebrate the traditional American family, while recognising the problems of 'momism' and absent fathers.

The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema

Author : Antônio Márcio da Silva
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113739921X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema written by Antônio Márcio da Silva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals into the range of "femmes" fatales and examines how the Brazilian representations cross gender, race, and class and offer alternatives to the dominant Hollywood model.