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The Femme Fatale: Falling Out of Favor. The femme fatale—a popular character
archetype in hard-boiled detective film and detective fiction. ...
Submitted by CherryAxe on June 14, 2007
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The femme fatale—a popular character archetype in hard-boiled detective film and detective fiction. French for “deadly woman”, she is the character who uses her sex appeal to lure the detective or lays down a sob story to get the hard-boiled detective to help her, then uses her cunning to dupe the sap, usually in finding the culprit or seducing him into committing a crime (cf. Double Indemnity). The femme fatale can still be found today, but given the shifts in the social climate and how the world of entertainment and advertising has pushed the envelope on what is acceptable, the femme fatale isn’t as common as it once was.
There is a spectrum of different types of women portrayed in the media, from the clingy, weak-willed princess who needs a man to actually feel like a woman (Scarlett O’Hara, from both the book and movie version of Gone With The Wind comes to mind) to the “independent woman”—also known as the career woman; this is the type of woman who purports herself to be strong enough to be successful in a world where men are considered the successful ones, and everything in between (the ice queen [the woman who has a strong aversion to anything sexual, or is seen as having no compassion for anyone else], the golddigger [a sort of sub-genre of “femme fatale” who uses rich men for their wealth and leave when the money’s gone or another man comes along with a bigger wallet; the rap song “Golddigger” by Kanye West and another rap song, this time by alterna-rap group De La Soul called “Shopping Bags” both tell of the consequences men get into when they date women who only want them for their income; an example of a golddiger in pop culture is Peggy Bundy from the raunchy FOX sitcom, Married…With Children, who manages to swipe what little her shoe-selling husband, Al, can earn at his dead-end job], the party girl [the girl who likes to dance, drink heavily, and engage in wild, reckless behavior, preferably in a party setting], the soccer mom [the mother...
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