The "femme" Fatale in Brazilian Cinema

' What is original about this study is da Silva' s decision to theorize the concept of the femme fatale, a term that has been very much of a shifter, in the sense that it has been moved around the semantic grid to cover multiple concepts or has been used to cover a gap in that grid. The ' Femme' Fatale in Brazilian Cinema is attentive to the queer postulate that sociosexual categories are not fixed lexemes with a rigid hierarchy of sememes, but of gender in a society and its cultural production. " - David William Foster, Regent' s Professor of Spanish, Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University, USA

" This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the performativity of the so-called ' femme fatale' in a number of Brazilian films primarily from the 1970s and 1980s. Navigating between representations of the femme fatale, or the ' deadly woman' , if one prefers, as black, homosexual, slave or as a teenager, da Silva provides a key assessment of the figure for Lusophone Studies and cultural and film studies more generally. " - Richard Cleminson, Reader, History of Sexuality, University of Leeds, UK