Overview: .The Lola film is a distinct subgenre of the woman‘s film in which woman‘sclaim to pleasure is entertained without recourse to the figure of the femmefatale. Lola embodies a recognizable set of characteristics through which overtime a select group of directors, actors, and audiences have responded in waysthat do not succumb to the imperatives of gender. There are over thirty-fiveLola films, starting with Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel: many are German, others areFrench, American, British, Italian, and Spanish, but her claim has alsoresonated in Argentina, China, Egypt, Mexico, Th
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