New Orleans as the city of misfit women in Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938) and The Flame of New Orleans (René Clair, 1941) by Taïna TUHKUNEN

“…More humorously, yet resonating with the iconoclasm of William Wyler’s rebellious neworleansian heroine, René Clair’s satirical film presents us with a Southern city which it not to be confused with Atlanta, Georgia, in these two films representative of the “southern genre”.…”
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