Phantom ladies: the war worker, the slacker and the ‘femme fatale’

Jancovich, Mark (2010) Phantom ladies: the war worker, the slacker and the ‘femme fatale’. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 8 (2). pp. 164-178. ISSN 1740-0309

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Abstract

The paper examines the debates over the femme fatale, and particularly the claim that this figure emerged as part of a reaction against the working women of wartime. On the contrary, the paper demonstrates that there was little sense of a unified, coherent or distinctive figure identified by reviewers at the time and that while there was a cycle of films featuring dangerous women, this cycle was largely associated with the start of the war, rather than its end, and associated these women with the figure of the slacker rather than the working woman. Indeed, many of these dangerous women were often overtly opposed to the figure of the independent woman of wartime, and the films within which they appeared were often identified with female rather than male audiences.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Film and Television Studies (former - to 2012) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media
Depositing User:	Philip Robinson
Date Deposited:	16 Mar 2011 11:43
Last Modified:	12 Jan 2024 01:21
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/26349
DOI:	10.1080/17400301003700277

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