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Women in Film Noir
by E. Ann Kaplan (editor)
July 28, 2026 - July 29, 2026 (film-criticism, film-noir)

? (1978). Women in Film Noir. British Film Institute.


British Film Institute, 1978. 256 pages. Paperback. 9780851706665

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p.171
polysemous »
when a word or phrase has multiple meanings (from…
p.210
the refreshingly life-size image of male fallibil…
here is no room here to go over the theoretical d…
p.205
here is a world where it is always night
Many accounts of ‘film noir’ only see a bleak cit…
p.170
The Woman did it
If the fatales of the 40s and 50s were marked out…
p.152
the neo-noir femme fatale
The radical intervention achieved by the original…
p.63
the deadly seductress and the rejuvenating redeem…
Film noir contains versions of both extremes of t…

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1. Klute 1: A Contemporary Film Noir and Feminist Criticism
by Christine Gledhill (missing author)

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Klute 1: A Contemporary Film Noir and Feminist Criticism
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2. Woman’s Place: The Absent Family of Film Noir
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Woman’s Place: The Absent Family of Film Noir
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3. Women in Film Noir
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Women in Film Noir
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4. Duplicity in Mildred Pierce
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Duplicity in Mildred Pierce
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6. Double Indemnity
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Double Indemnity
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8. Resistance through Charisma: Rita Hayworth and Gilda
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Resistance through Charisma: Rita Hayworth and Gilda
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9. Postscript: Queers and Women in Film Noir
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Postscript: Queers and Women in Film Noir
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10. Female Spectator, Lesbian Spectre: The Haunting
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Female Spectator, Lesbian Spectre: The Haunting
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Femme Fatale or Lesbian Femme: Bound in Sexual Différance
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