“Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema

• Utgivningsdatum: 2014-05-01
• Mått: 140 x 216 x 13 mm
• Vikt: 288 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 215
• Upplaga: 14001
• Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• ISBN: 9781349485703

• Konstböcker
• Genusvetenskap
• Scenkonst och film
• Film

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

'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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