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Use of Sexuality to Manipulate Men

The dark, strong femme fatale of noir is the main female character in film noirs. Film Noir defines women by their sexuality. These women are given not only sexual powers, but also ambitions. They long for or look for independence, often economic, and freedom, often from relationships with men. These women, the masters and possessors of their own sexuality, represent a danger to the males. They are desirable but dangerous. They use their sexuality by deriving power from it and use their intellect to get what they want. In Film Noir, women use their sexuality to manipulate men in order to gain power and independence.

Women in film noir often refer to as “spider women” because of their trapping manipulations. The sexual women's power and strength are visually expressed in the films, both through the iconography of the image and through the visual style (Place 43). It is often the woman that dominates and controls the camera, both because of her own strength and because of the male heroes attraction to her. The man is sometimes simply destroyed because he cannot resist the woman’s lures. The physicality of the woman, the focus on her body, represents her sexual power over the male characters. To focus attention on this and it

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