Hitchcock Annual (1999) - Of Flashbacks and Femmes Fatales: Review Essay

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• book review: Of Flashbacks and Femmes Fatales: Review Essay
• author(s): Leland Poague
• journal: Hitchcock Annual (01/Jan/1999)
• issue: volume 8, pages 131-155
• journal ISSN: 1062-5518
• publisher: Hitchcock Annual Corporation
• keywords: A Hitchcock Reader (1989) edited by Marshall Deutelbaum & Leland Poague, Alfred Hitchcock, Deborah Linderman, E. Ann Kaplan, Essay collections, Fatal Woman, Feminist theory, Film (USA), Film noir, Film theory, Graham Greene, J.P. Telotte, James F. Maxfield, James Naremore, Joan Copjec, Kate Stables, Laura Mulvey, Leland Poague, London, England, Marshall Deutelbaum, Pam Cook, Production Code Administration, R. Barton Palmer, Robin Wood, Screen (1975) - Visual pleasure and narrative cinema, Slavoj Žižek, Vertigo (1958), Women, Women in Film Noir

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Abstract

Reviews James F. Maxfield's "The Fatal Woman: Sources of Male Anxiety in American Film Noir, 1941-1991" (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996, 194p, $32.50 cloth) and "Women in Film Noir" edited by E. Ann Kaplan (New Edition, BFI Publishing, 1998, 238p, $49.95 cloth, $19.95 pb). Remarks that the new edition of "Women in Film Noir" does not fulfill the promise of the first edition as well or as fully as Maxfield's book does. States Kaplan should have included a few more things about the cultural development of noir, if not in her selection of essays then in her own contributions to the new edition.