{"product_id":"dangerous-dames-jans-b-wager-9780821412701","title":"Dangerous Dames: Women and Representation in Film Noir and the Weimar Street Film","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoth film noir and the Weimar street film hold a continuing fascination for film spectators and film theorists alike. The female characters, especially the alluring femmes fatales, remain a focus for critical and popular attention. In the tradition of such attention, \u003ci\u003eDangerous Dames\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the femme fatale and her antithesis, the femme attrap馥.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnlike most theorists, Jans Wager examines these archetypes from the perspective of the female spectator and rejects the persistence of vision that allows a reading of these female characters only as representations of unstable postwar masculinity. Professor Wager suggests that the woman in the audience has always seen and understood these characters as representations of a complex aspect of her existence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDangerous Dames\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the Weimar street films \u003ci\u003eThe Street\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVariety\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAsphalt\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eM\u003c\/i\u003e and the film noir movies \u003ci\u003eThe Maltese Falcon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGun Crazy\u003c\/i\u003e, and The Big Heat. This book opens the doors to spectators and theorists alike, suggesting cinematic pleasures outside the bounds of accepted readings and beyond the narrow categorization of film noir and the Weimar street film as masculine forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jans B. Wager\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821412701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821412701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.78h x 5.34w x 0.73d","brand":"Jans B. Wager","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44138423156991,"sku":"9780821412701","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d38f72aa-ef27-4cc1-a0a0-0d6b396b4aad.jpg?v=1687899586","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dangerous-dames-jans-b-wager-9780821412701","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}