women and representation in the Weimar street film and film noir
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Wager, Jans B.
- Publish Year
- 1999
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 1999 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwbeelden, films, interbellum, receptie
- Description
- The author examines the archetypes of 'femme fatale' and 'femme attrapée' from the perspective of the female spectator. She argues that the woman in the audience has always seen and understood these characters as representations of a complex aspect of her existence. She looks at the Weimar street films The Street, Variety, Asphalt, and M, and the film noir movies The Maltese Falcon, Gun Crazy, and The Big Heat.