I hope you're not confusing explicitness with sexuality. Many of the teen bad-girls of the 50's pulp movies were as sexy as they come - they just didn't come, on-screen. At 09:32 AM 11/16/99 -0600, Mary Celeste Kearney wrote: >One thing I found intriguing about Jennifer Lopez's femme fatale character >in U-TURN was that the audience gets to learn about her past (i.e., her >relationship with her father), which is used as an explanation for her >present bad-girl behavior. To my knowledge, such back-story explanations >for the development of femme fatale behavior didn't occur in earlier film >noir. But they make sense in our society's present approach to >understanding "deviance." > >I think another point to consider are *teenage* femme fatales. This trend >is not new; it has been going on for decades. However, today's teens >(especially girls) are far more explicitly sexual than in the past. >Consider Sarah Michelle Gellar's character in the recent remake of >Dangerous Liaisons, or the bad girl/fantasy object in American Beauty (an >interesting twist since she explicitly uses her sexuality as a means to >power, but then reveals that she's never actually engaged in sexual >intercourse). > >Mary Kearney > >---- >Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the >University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > > Paul B. Wiener Special Services Librarian Melville Library SUNY at Stony Brook, NY 11794 631/632-7253 fax: 631/632-7116 [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu