The femme fatale has long been constructed and understood in
popular culture and cinema as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian
woman that belongs to film noir and neo-noir. Here, da Silva shows
the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals
into the range of "femmes" fatales. He examines how the Brazilian
representations cross genre, gender, race, and class and offer
alternative instances (black, slave, homosexual, married, and
teenage) to the dominant Hollywood Caucasian model. As with gender
performativity, the danger the femme fatale represents to society
is constructed rather than being an innate feature. This figure
represents areas of cultural anxiety, particularly around issues of
sexuality and gender, but da Silva seeks to reframe these issues in
the context of Brazilian film.
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