The femme fatale

Description:

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.

subjects: Femmes fatales in literature,  Femmes fatales in motion pictures,  Women in popular culture,  Performing Arts,  Femmes fatales,  Women in motion pictures,  Feminism in literature,  Literature, history and criticism