E.Ann Kaplan 'Women in Film Noir' BFI Publishing, London, 1998

• The Neo Noir heroine is the product of what coud be read as "disappointment at what feminist movements failed to achieve'
• Classic femme fatales must be contained in order for the patriarchal order to be restored
• Most feminist discussion centred on the way in which noir disrupted the patriarchal social order only to emphasise the potential disaster unleashed when women do not know their place.
• Neo fatales vent their angst upon less intelligent, oppressive men
• The Neo-Noirs are not moral tales, nor do they possess