Dangerous DamesBoth film noir and the Weimar street film hold a continuing fascination for film spectators and film theorists alike. The female characters, especially the alluring femmes fatales, remain a focus for critical and popular attention. In the tradition of such attention, Dangerous Dames focuses on the femme fatale and her antithesis, the femme attrape. Unlike most theorists, Jans Wager examines these archetypes from the perspective of the female spectator