The "Femme" Fatale in Brazilian Cinema: Challenging Hollywood Norms
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2014
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781137399205
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781137399205
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Addition:
- 12/27/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Antônio Márcio da Silva
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Entertainment, Nonfiction, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.