Product Description

A major work of feminist film criticism examining questions of sexual difference, the female body and the female spectator through a discussion of such figures as Pabst's Lulu and Rita Hayworth's Gilda.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #716649 in Books
• Published on: 1991-08-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
Doanes insights into the ways in which womens bodies become a cinematic battleground are startling and illuminating. Likewise, her lengthy essays on psychoanalysis and racial difference and on the relationship between Freudian concept of sublimation and aesthetics (both written for this volume) are lucid and provocative, challenging the assumption that both race and aesthetics lie outside the purview of psychoanalysis.
–Publishers Weekly, August 16, 1991

Customer Reviews

For those who love Film Noir and fatales!
Mary Ann Doane's book, "Femme Fatales" has a great cover with the wonderful Louise Brooks. The essays and articles helped explain feminism and the film industry. It's sad to believe that the film industry will always be a male industry but that's the way it is. We learn from the book about how the audience including ourselves are manipulated by the director's. The author does an excellent job in bringing together the feminine mystique from female's point of view and males at times as well. The femme fatale, long may she rein.