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These essays trace the "femme fatale" across literature, visual
culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity
has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical
epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the
Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in
contemporary cinema.
Combining ink with dry coloured pencil is an innovative technique
that integrates two very different media, resulting in rich and
detailed work. This beautiful book looks at different methods of
mark-making in ink and a repertoire of coloured pencil techniques,
then explains how to work with them together successfully. Drawing
on the author's love of the countryside and its plant communities,
it shows how the technique can be used to interpret the landscape
in a new and highly individual way. Packed with step-by-step
sequences and finished examples, this book will encourage beginners
to get started and inspire artists looking for a new direction.
The technical crafts of sound in classical Hollywood cinema have,
until recently, remained largely 'unsung' by histories of the
studio era. Yet film sound - voice, music and sound effects - is a
crucial aspect of film style and has been key to engaging and
holding audiences since the transition to sound by Hollywood's
major studios in 1929. This innovative new text restores sound
technicians to Hollywood's creative history. Exploring a range of
films from the early sound period (1931) through to the late studio
period (1948), and drawing on a wide range of archival sources, the
book reveals how Hollywood's sound designers worked and why they
worked in the ways that they did. The book demonstrates how sound
technicians developed conventions designed to tell stories through
sound, placing them within the production cultures of studio era
filmmaking, and uncovering a history of collective and
collaborative creativity. In doing so, it traces the emergence of a
body of highly skilled sound personnel, able to apply expert
technical knowledge in the science of sound to the creation of
cinematic soundscapes that are alive with mood and sensation.
These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual
culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity
has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical
epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the
Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in
contemporary cinema.
The endangered and dangerous female figures of "Rebecca", of
"Jagged Edge" and "What Lies Beneath" have a deserved and endures
fascination. Helen Hanson re-examines these gothic heroines of
Hollywood and their meanings, in two of Hollywood's key generic
cycles, film noir and the female gothic film. Starting at the
beginning, with the origin of these cycles and the ways in which
they represented women in the American film industry and culture of
the 1940s, she traces their revival in neo-noir and neo-gothic
films from the 1980s to the present. She also places the female
figures of the femme fatale, female investigator and gothic heroine
within the shifting contexts of the film industry and debates in
feminist film criticism. Hanson examines a wide range of films from
both periods, including 'Suspicion', 'Gaslight' and 'Pacific
Heights', and gives particular attention to their presentation of
female stories, actions and perspectives. She reveals a diversity
of female figures, representations and actions in film noir and the
female gothic film, and argues that these women are part of a
negotiation of female identities, desires and roles across a long
historical period. "Hollywood Heroines" therefore offers us new
ways of thinking about classic and contemporary Hollywood heroines,
and about the interrelationships of gender and genre.
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