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The "femme" Fatale in Brazilian Cinema: Challenging Hollywood Norms

The "femme" Fatale in Brazilian Cinema: Challenging Hollywood Norms

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Film StudiesGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1349485705
ISBN13: 9781349485703
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: May 1 2014
Pages: 215
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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