The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema

The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema
Author: Antônio Márcio da Silva
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 113739921X

Download The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.


The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Antônio Márcio da Silva
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-01 - Publisher: Springer

GET EBOOK

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 an
Brazilian Women's Filmmaking
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Leslie L. Marsh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-31 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

GET EBOOK

This text focuses on women's film production in Brazil from the mid-1970s to the current era. Marsh explains how women's filmmaking contributed to the reformula
The Contemporary Femme Fatale
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: Katherine Farrimond
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-06 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

GET EBOOK

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 dra
Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Antônio Márcio da Silva
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-12 - Publisher: Springer

GET EBOOK

This collection explores the emergence of new spatialities and subjectivities in Brazilian films produced from the 1990s onwards, a period that became known as
Women Who Kill
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: David Roche
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

GET EBOOK

Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relation