Femmes fatales
Representation in the Movies and the Spectrum of Modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5928670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rita De Cássia Eleutério De Moraes (Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 25 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista de Letras (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0104-9992 • E-ISSN: 2179-5282 |
| Publisher | Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Parana (UTFPR) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3895/rl.v19n24.2893 |
| OpenAlex | W2775443557 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
In this essay, I aim at analyzing the popular reception of the femme fatale in the 1920’s, relating the emergence and presence of this figure to the modernist period by analyzing the female characters namely Lulu, in Pandora’s Box by G.W. Pabst (1928-9), The Woman from the City in Sunrise by F.W. Murnau (1927), and Maria the Robot in Metropolis by Fritz Lang (1926-7), as well as to verify how they fit the concept and can be addressed as “femme fatales” or “vamps”. My intention is to trace a root for the appearance of the femme fatale or vamp, beginning with an analysis of the term “flapper” and its origins as well as to trace a parallel among the female characters in the films under analysis to demonstrate how they [the flappers/ femmes fatales] influenced and were influenced by modernity
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Literature · Modernity · Period (music · Political science · Representation (politics · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Cinema and Media Studies · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |