Notes from Text
- 'The woman who wears glasses constitutes as one of the most intense visual cliches of the cinema' - Link to transformation movies.
- 'concerned with repressed sexuality, knowledge, visibility and vision, intellectuality, and desire'.
- 'In dishonored (1931), Dietrich assumes a masquerade when she works as a spy'.
- 'Marlene Dietrich once again appears to demonstrate her control over male, she literally plays with the veil'.
- 'Apart from any intradiegetic deception or duplicity attached to the feminine'.
- 'She is not the subject of feminism but a symptom of male fears about feminism'.
- 'The femme fatale is the figure of a certain discursive unease, a potential epistemological trauma'.
- 'for her most striking characteristic, perhaps, is the fact that she never really is what she seems to be' - Icon.
- Femme Fatale definition - An attractive and seductive woman, especially one who will ultimately cause distress to a man who becomes involved with her'.
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