Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir

1. Introduction “No One Mourns the Wicked”
Julie Grossman

Part I. Part I Rereading Film Noir

2. Film Noir’s “Femmes Fatales”: Moving Beyond Gender Fantasies
Julie Grossman

3. “Well, aren’t we ambitious”: Desire, Domesticity, and the “Femme Fatale,” or “You’ve made up your mind I’m guilty”: The Long Reach of Misreadings of Woman as Wicked in American Film Noir
Julie Grossman

4. Psychological Disorders and “Wiretapping the Unconscious”: Film Noir Listens to Women
Julie Grossman

Part II. Film Noir’s Janus Face

5. Looking Back—Victorinoir: Modern Women and the Fatal(e) Progeny of Victorian Representations
Julie Grossman

6. Looking Forward: Deconstructing The “Femme Fatale”
Julie Grossman

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film History, Gender Studies, Cultural History, Film and Television Studies, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Cultural Studies