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Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir : Ready for Her Close-up, Paperback .... Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir : Ready for Her Close-up, Paperback by Grossman, J., ISBN 1349313343, ISBN-13 9781349313341, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In the context of nineteenth-century Victorinoir and close readings of original-cycle film noir, Julie Grossman argues that the presence of the "femme fatale" figure, as she is understood in film criticism and popular culture, is drastically over-emphasized and has helped to sustain cultural obsessions with "bad" women. Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir : Ready for Her Close-up, Paperback by Grossman, J., ISBN 1349313343, ISBN-13 9781349313341, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In the context of nineteenth-century Victorinoir and close readings of original-cycle film noir, Julie Grossman argues that the presence of the "femme fatale" figure, as she is understood in film criticism and popular culture, is drastically over-emphasized and has helped to sustain cultural obsessions with "bad" women.