The V&A's exhibition Diva - the femme fatale, the erotic thriller…what’s the relationship between all of these? Why was Sex & Thrill so watched in the 80s and the 90s and what’s the femme fatale in relation to an erotic movie?
Is the connection that obvious?
In this episode, Alex talks about the reinterpretation of both of these topics, with some spelling mistakes, but with the aim to find out more about these two themes.
‘Let women make erotic thrillers’, (2019) Abbey Bender, 2 October. Available at: https://theoutline.com/post/8027/bring-back-erotic-thrillers
Blaser, John. “No Place For a Woman: The Family in Film Noir.” (1996): n. pag. Web. 5 Dec. 2012.
Grossman, J. (2020) The Femme Fatale. Rutgers University Press.
Mercure, Michelle (2010). The “Bad Girl” Turned Feminist: The Femme Fatale and the Performance of Theory. Undergraduate Review, 6, 113-119
Schwartz, Ronald. Neo-Noir: The New Film Noir Style from Psycho to Collateral. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2005.
Hornaday, A. (2019) ‘Perspective | Sex is disappearing from the big screen, and it’s making movies less pleasurable’, Washington Post, 7 June. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/sex-is-disappearing-from-the-big-screen-and-its-making-movies-less-pleasurable/2019/06/06/37848090-82ed-11e9-933d-7501070ee669_story.html.
‘The Femme Fatale in Hollywood Film Noir’ (2013) Amy Lauren Zoons, 28 February. Available at: https://amylaurenzoons.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/the-femme-fatale-in-hollywood-film-noir/