in defense of the femme fatale 🚬

PODCAST Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3wvGhhd3yGEJhak11myA5N Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/high-brow/id1677209917 for extra content every Wednesday 😈 FREUD SUCKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freudian_Coverup academic paper on it: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959353596062015 NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/24/science/freud-secret-documents-reveal-years-of-strife.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=0 ✦ Donate: https://ko-fi.com/minale ✦ Instagram: http://instagram.com/gremlita ✦ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gremlita ✦ Letterboxd: http://boxd.it/7YgX Sources: The “Bad Girl” Turned Feminist: The Femme Fatale and the Performance of Theory by Michelle Mercure The Emergence of the Feminist Fatale in American Film Noir by Anne Dennon Fatal Woman, Revisited: Understanding Female Stereotypes in Film Noir by Danielle L. Barnes-Smith Film Noir's Progressive Portrayal of Women by John and Stephanie Blaser "Vicious Womanhood": Genre, The "Femme Fatale" and Postwar America by Marc Jancovich Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale: From Pandora’s Box to Amanda Knox by Stevie Simkin Challenging the stereotype: the femme fatale in fin-de-siecle art and early cinema by Jess Sully The Big Seduction: Feminist Film Criticism and the Femme Fatale by Helen Hanson Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship by Jackie Stacey Woman's Place: The Absent Family of Film Noir ****by Sylvia Harvey Women in Film Noir by Janey Place "Gilda Didn't Do Any of Those Things You've Been Losing Sleep Over!": The Central Woman of 40s Films Noirs by Angela Martin The Beauty and Horror of Medusa, an Enduring Symbol of Women’s Power by Allison Meier