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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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Book Title: The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema
Book Subtitle: Challenging Hollywood Norms
Authors: Antônio Márcio Silva
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137399212
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Antônio Márcio da Silva 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-39920-5Published: 01 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48570-3Published: 01 May 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-39921-2Published: 01 May 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 215
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: American Cinema and TV, Latin American Cinema and TV, Film History, Gender Studies, Screen Studies, Arts