The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts [electronic resource] /
Hanson, Helen.author.
O'Rawe, Catherine.author.
These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in contemporary cinema.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Literary and visual archetypes -- pt. 2. Film stars -- pt. 3. Femmes Fatales in European and world cinemas -- pt. 4. Hollywood.
These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in contemporary cinema.
Motion pictures and television.
Fine arts.
Cultural studies.
Social history.
Sociology.
Communication.
Screen Studies.
Fine Arts.
Cultural Studies.
Social History.
Gender Studies.
Media Studies.