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From Door Frame to Freeze Frame: Femmes Ante Portas
Read more: From Door Frame to Freeze Frame: Femmes Ante PortasEncountering feminine mysteries on celluloid, a post-Jungian analysis of the veneration of the Hollywood film icon, tracing the blazing trail of cinema femme fatales, their imagery framed within portals, places where darkness and light meet, the heroines gazing back at us, in defiance, transforming into a new fluid form of the femme fatale as action…
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Fallen Women of Hollywood Melodrama: 1930s-1950s
Read more: Fallen Women of Hollywood Melodrama: 1930s-1950sExploring the myth of the fallen woman in classic Hollywood melodrama, its historical, religious and literary antecedents, archetypal realms of the dark, wild feminine projected onto the screen, her impact on the spectator. A dispossessed femininity, fragmented and demonised, yet powerfully vibrant and creative.