الممارسات اللّغويّة
Volume 16, Numéro 1, Pages 290-311
2025-06-02
Rethinking The New Femme Fatale In Carl Franklin’s Devil In A Blue Dress: From A Woman Temptress To A Helpless Victim
Authors : Afettouche Belaid .
Abstract
Drawing on Susan Faludi’s critical concept of ‘backlash’ from her 1991 book Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women, this article explores how gender roles and the domestication of the femme fatale are portrayed in Carl Franklin’s Devil in a Blue Dress (1995). Released in the mid-1990s – a time when women were experiencing the benefits of second-wave feminism, such as increased social mobility and visibility – I argue that Franklin uses the retro-noir genre to communicate his ideas about women’s roles and position in American society. My analysis shows that Franklin’s use of the femme fatale archetype is an effort to silence women and confine them to the private sphere. In other words, by referencing the femme fatale – a figure that traditionally challenges male authority – Franklin aims to undermine this challenge and reinforce the patriarchal order’s dominance over women.
Keywords
Retro-noir film ; the Femme Fatale ; Gender ; Man ; Woman ; Backlash ; Social roles ; the Private and the public spaces
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