in defense of the femme fatale 🚬

FREUD SUCKS: academic paper on it: NYT article: ✦ Patreon: ✦ Donate: ✦ Instagram: ✦ TikTok: @gremlita ✦ Letterboxd: 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