Women in film noir / edited by E. Ann Kaplan.

Contributor Kaplan, E. Ann.

Edition Statement:New ed.

Imprint:London : BFI Pub., 1998.

Descriptionix, 238 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.

Note:Klute 1:a contemporary film noir and feminist criticism / Christine Gledhill. - Woman's place: the absent family of film noir / Sylvia Harvey. - Women in film noir / Janey Place. - Duplicity in Mildred Pierce / Pam Cook. - The place of women in Fritz Lang's The Blue Gardenia / E. Ann Kaplan. - Double Indemnity / Claire Johnston. - Klute 2:Feminism and Klute / Christine Gledhill. - Resistance through charisma: Rita Hayworth and Gilda / Richard Dyer. - Postscript: Queers and women in film noir / Richard Dyer. - Female spectator, lesbian spectre: The Haunting / Patricia White. - Femme fatale or lesbian femme: Bound in sexual Différance / Chris Straayer. - The postmodern always rings twice: constructing the femme fatale in 90s cinema / Kate Stables. - The "dark continent" of film noir: race, displacement and metaphor in Tourneur's Cat People (1942) and Welles' The Lady from Shanghai (1948) / E. Ann Kaplan. - "Gilda didn't do any of those things you've been losing sleep over!": the central women of 40s films noirs / Angela Martin.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-[234]) and index.

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