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How does the contemporary femme fatale differ (if at all) from the femme fatal of the 1940's? Refer to specific films in your answer.'
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Rory Doody 9904416 Film Studies - Film Noir How does the contemporary femme fatale differ (if at all) from the femme fatal of the 1940's? Refer to specific films in your answer.' Introduction Of all the icons of the genre/movement/style that we have come to classify as film noir, perhaps the most memorable is the femme fatale. Her significance is all the more surprising given that this is a predominantly male world - women consistently remained subordinate to the male in film noir, both in front of and behind the camera. But the femme fatale - seductive, sexually transgressive, duplicitous - has lingered in the minds of audiences and filmmakers beyond the established close of the classic noir period. The femme fatale is not a creation new to the film noir either. Her antecedents can be found in the Greek myths of Medusa and Pandora and the Marquis de Sade's Juliette - women who lured...
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