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This book explores how film noir reflects and challenges patriarchal power structures. It analyzes the roles of bodies and discourse in sustaining or subverting the status quo, drawing on Lacan, Foucault, and Barthes. Case studies include "Double Indemnity," "Gilda," and others, highlighting themes of resistance and subversion in postwar society.
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Body, Power & Discourse: Film Noir as a site of Symbolic Contestation, Liliana Lopes Monteiro
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