Katherine Farrimond is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research focuses on the intersections of the body, sexuality and gender in contemporary popular film and television. She has published work on the femme fatale, genre, nostalgia and virginity.
Farrimond's careful attention to the nuances of contemporary film noir draws a portrait of the problems and potential of the femme fatale today that is sure to be of interest to scholars and fans of noir films more generally. Bringing together gender studies, film studies and visual culture, she takes up the fascination of the femme fatale in all its ambivalent complexity to paint a compelling portrait of why this figure continues to fascination and provoke today. -Alanna Thain, Department of English, McGill University, Canada This book offers an important discussion of the femme fatale and postfeminist models of female empowerment in contemporary American film. -Lisa Funnell, University of Oklahoma, USA