“Freedom” in Film Noir: the Femme Fatale as a symbol of female liberation in cinema
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https://doi.org/10.34629/rcdmt.vol.1.n.2.pp42-59Keywords:
Film Noir, Femme Fatale, Cinema, American cinemaAbstract
Reflection on the film noir cinematic genre developed in the United States of America, in the forties and fifties of the twentieth century, inserted in a space-time of war and post-war. The article focuses mainly on how the character of the femme fatale became a symbol of female freedom in a time of restrictions and censorship.
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