Femme fatale

her sexuality and feminine innocence against males to survive and violently kill others in the game. Her cruelty reflects Japanese society's negative views on the femme fatale. Dangerous femme fatale characters like Mitsuko are common in Japanese history, even featuring in old myths (Adams 33). One particular kind of Japanese femme fatale is the “poison woman” (dokufu): this term emerged in media and literature of the Meiji period. Like Mitsuko, “poison women” were sexually aggressive and free,…

as well as “the choice”, which can be seen when Mildred decides to separate from her first husband Bert. All of these themes are incorporated and mixed in with the film noir elements including lighting iconography, the noir protagonist, and the femme fatale. Joan Crawford, who plays Mildred…

In the novel Big Sleep, written in the 1930’s, Vivian is a character that seduces Marlowe into protecting her and her family in fear that Marlowe will find out the truth about her sister Carmen. Vivian is a Femme Fatale meaning an attractive and seductive person who, throughout the novel, uses that to get her way. Vivian is first introduced by a description of her body and looks. This is important because it sets her tone that she is an attractive woman. Vivian uses this to her advantage…

time, the three narrative elements ensure the complement of The Killers structure in terms of protagonists that interwoven the femme fatale, the victim-hero and the ‘hard-boiled’ private eye in fragmented paranoid narrative. Metaphorically, the shadow casting on the Swede implies an underlying hopeless situation and noir fatalist destroys to him engendered by his femme fatale, Kitty, whilst the fragmented flashbacks are developed by the investigations of seeker-hero to draw the audience…

The film embodies the themes, elements, and moods to be considered a film noir. There were stock characters like femme fatale and the anti-hero, exaggerated lighting, plot twist, fatalism, and betrayal. All of which are components to the film noir genre. Scarlet Street was a film that got a lot of publicity after it had been banned from the theaters due to not following…

Breathless, directed by Jean Luc Godard, was somewhat of a French-made parody of these American films, for instance, the main character, Michel, attempting to molding himself after Humphrey Bogart, and his lover, Patricia, encompassing the role of a femme fatale. Whereas, Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino, and released in 1994, is a sort of new-age film noir, with…

connected by a mobster named Marcellus Wallace. This film is a member of the neo-noir genre of crime fiction. The film also contains certain noir characteristics such as a pessimistic or nihilistic nature, a McGuffin, and common characters such as a femme fatale, a sap, and a hardboiled leading man. To begin,…

her ability to never give up and to solve the case, no matter what that would mean for her personal affairs. This confirms that the patriarchal concerns are absent, and that the relation of femininity and masculinity is revised. Much like how the femme fatale was a product of her environment, the Scandinavian female detective is a product of a collective fantasy of a society that denies all gendered…

observations of the world to sharper reasoning of the cultural and social changes that’s happening in the Mango Street community. Sexuality and freedom are prominent themes throughout the novel. Withe use of symbols such as flying, shoes, and femme fatales, Esperanza’s struggle between her budding sexuality and her desire for freedom is revealed. On the first few chapters, it is clear that Esperanza’s goal is to escape Mango Street and live in a house of her own after seeing the trapped women…

Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi film ‘Blade Runner’ questions the idea of true humanity through the style of Film Noir. Based on the 1968 short story ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ by Phillip K. Dick, ‘Blade Runner’ shows the inhumane, dark side of the human race. Scott is successful in catching audience’s interest with the use of Film Noir, showing the dystopian society of Los Angeles, the depiction of gender roles and the shifting views of true humanity between human and replicant. ‘Blade…