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From Irony to Narrative Crisis: Reconsidering the Femme Fatale in the Films of David Lynch
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 52, Number 1, Fall 2012
- pp. 25-44
- 10.1353/cj.2012.0112
- Article
- Additional Information
This article argues that the figure of the femme fatale, associated by feminist film critics with the epistemological drive of causal and patriarchal narrative, attains a progressive potential when portrayed through the complex narrative temporalities of David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive.