Femmes Fatales
- ISBN-10
- 1136638970
- ISBN-13
- 9781136638978
- Series
- Femmes Fatales
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 324
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-06-17
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Mary Ann Doane
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.
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