No Place for a Woman: The Family in Film Noir and Other Essays
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Description: A Berkeley student's thesis on the ladies of film noir. Very interesting.
No Place for a Woman: The Femme Fatale No Place for a Woman: The Family in "He keeps me on a leash so tight I can't breathe." represents the most direct attack on traditional womanhood and the nuclear family. She refuses to play the role of devoted wife and loving mother that mainstream society prescribes for women. She finds marriage to be confining, loveless, sexless, and dull, and she uses all of her cunning and sexual attractiveness to gain her independence. As Janey Place points out, "She is not often won over and pacified by love for the hero, as is the strong heroine of the forties who is significantly less sexual than the
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