Pre/texts - "Fatima", "Take-off"; mythic discourse - "The Lady from Shanghai", "Riddles of the Sphinx"; the lives of performers - the actress as signifier in the cinema - "Persona", "The Girls"; kiss me deadly - heterosexual romance and the cinema - "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "Straight Through the Heart", "Recital"; shall we dance? woman and the musical - "Dames", "Dance, Girl, Dance", "Strange Ditties", "Primitive Movers", "The Eighties"; sisters - the divided self - "A Stolen Life", "Dark Mirror", "Cobra Woman", "The Bad Sister", "Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness"; girl groups - female friendship - "Rich and Famous", "Girl Friends"; women in love - the theme of lesbianism - "Sotto, Sotto", "Lianna"; murder, she wrote - women who kill - "Violette", "A Question of Silence"; the dialogic text.
