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The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema

Challenging Hollywood Norms
By:Kenneth A. Loparo
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137399205
eText ISBN:9781137399212
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals into the range of "femmes" fatales and examines how the Brazilian representations cross gender, race, and class and offer alternatives to the dominant Hollywood model.