How Killing Eve Subverts the Spy Thriller

Tracing the history of bisexuality in film and TV, and where Killing Eve fits within it! Has there always been a queer subtext in the cat and mouse genre? Let's find out!

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Sources:

Bramesco article:
https://www.insidehook.com/article/movies/heat-most-homoerotic-film-90s-deniro-pacino

Farrimond, Katherine. "Bisexual Detection: Visibility, Epistemology, and Contamination" in The Contemporary Femme Fatale: Gender, Genre and American Cinema, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Harris Green article:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hannahharrisgreen/killing-eve-villanelle-sandra-oh-jodi-comer-bisexual

Letort, Delphine. "The Femme Fatale of the 1990s Erotic Thriller" in Women Who Kill: Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era. Bloomsbury, 2020.

Waites, Kathleen J.. "Killing Eve and the Necessity of the Female Villain du Jour" in Antiheroines of Contemporary Media: Saints, Sinners, and Survivors. Lexington, 2021.

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