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The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema

Challenging Hollywood Norms

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  1. Antônio Márcio Silva
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Antônio Márcio da Silva
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Black Femme Fatale in Xica da Silva

    • Antônio Márcio da Silva
    Pages 21-45

  4. The Femme Fatale’s “Troubled” Gender in Madame Satã

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    Pages 47-72

  5. Social Class and the Virgin/Whore Dichotomy in Bonitinha mas ordinária

    • Antônio Márcio da Silva
    Pages 73-95

  6. The Fetish “Dirt” as “Social Pollution”: The Married Femme Fatale in A dama do lotação

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    Pages 97-123

  7. The “Abject” Lesbian Fatale in As intimidades de Analu e Fernanda

    • Antônio Márcio da Silva
    Pages 125-148

  8. “Quoting” the Film-Noir Femme Fatale in A dama do Cine Shanghai

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    Pages 149-167

  9. Conclusion

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    Pages 169-174

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 175-215
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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.

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'What is original about this study is da Silva's decision to theorize the concept of the femme fatale, a term that has been very much of a shifter, in the sense that it has been moved around the semantic grid to cover multiple concepts or has been used to cover a gap in that grid. The 'Femme' Fatale in Brazilian Cinema is attentive to the queer postulate that sociosexual categories are not fixed lexemes with a rigid hierarchy of sememes, but of gender in a society and its cultural production." - David William Foster, Regent's Professor of Spanish, Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University, USA

"This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the performativity of the so-called 'femme fatale' in a number of Brazilian films primarily from the 1970s and 1980s. Navigating between representations of the femme fatale, or the 'deadly woman', if one prefers, as black, homosexual, slave or as a teenager, da Silva provides a key assessment of the figure for Lusophone Studies and cultural and film studies more generally." - Richard Cleminson, Reader, History of Sexuality, University of Leeds, UK

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Antônio Márcio da Silva is Coordinator of Portuguese Studies at the University of Kent, UK.

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