chiaroscuro, 110

Cimber, Matt, 180, 210n76, 210n83, 222–223

Colette, 71

Conway, Jack, 41

commodity, commodity fetishism, 6–7, 11, 33, 35, 64, 166, 169–170, 200n18

Coolidge, Jennifer, 189

Cowie, Elizabeth, 104–106, 124

Classical Hollywood Cinema, 5, 236

Crane, Cheryl, 103, 207n56, 207n59, 208n61, 218

Cukor, George, 19

Curry, Ramona, 72, 78, 80, 82, 87, 93–94, 100, 229

Dames, 21, 26, 29, 232

Davis, Matthew, 189

Davy, Kate, 95, 230

Debord, Guy, 34–35, 199n16, 230

Dee, Sandra, 102, 116, 142, 218

desire, 2, 7–10, 15–18, 23, 34–37, 39–40, 52–54, 60, 63–64, 70–72, 78, 83, 88, 94, 105, 112, 116, 118, 121–122, 124, 129–131, 136, 142–143, 147–148, 162–163, 166, 168, 171–172, 175, 179, 187, 190–191, 195n2, 196n6, 202n29, 203n32, 209n70, 218, 221, 227, 230–232, 238, 240, 243

Dinner at Eight, 19–23,, 27, 31–32

Double Indemnity, 138

doubling, 113–114, 125, 127, 139, 141, 143

Doane, Mary Ann, 6, 11, 91, 96, 120–121, 197n8, 206n54, 210n83, 226, 230

drag, drag queens, 12, 65, 68–70, 88, 92–93, 96, 99, 172, 183, 204n41, 205n42, 225, 242

Dressler, Marie, 19

dumb blonde, 4, 37, 151, 166–167, 172, 187, 193

Dyer, Richard, 4, 107, 111, 113, 115, 118–119, 121, 124, 127, 130, 134, 139, 196n4, 208n63, 231

Eells, George and Stanley, 72, 93, 203n38–39, 204n40–41, 231

Engels, Friedrich, 85, 237

Erens, Patricia, 6, 225, 231, 244

essentialism, 38–39

Ewell, Tom, 162–163

Factor, Max, 3

fairy, 67–69, 98, 205n42, 242

Fawcett, Farrah, 191

Ferrucio, Frank, 157, 231

female impersonators, 10–11, 92, 96, 98, 239

feminist camp, 11, 17, 70, 72, 75, 80, 91–93, 95–99, 205n45, 241

feminist film theory, 1, 243–244

femme fatale, 5, 13, 103–106, 108, 110–114, 116, 118–125, 127, 130–131, 133–134, 136–138

feminist gaze, 5, 70, 92

film noir, 5, 104–106, 122, 124–125, 128, 131, 142, 229, 235, 238–242

Fischer, Lucy, 103, 107, 113, 232

Foucault, Michel, 32, 35, 84, 198n11, 199n17, 232

Freud, Sigmund, 72–73, 80, 84, 92, 96, 148, 169, 197n8, 203n32, 232–233, 236, 238

Fuss, Diana, 38, 233