The femme fatale
by Helen Hanson, Catherine O'Rawe
Femmes fatales in literatureFemmes fatales in motion picturesWomen in popular culturePerforming ArtsFemmes fatalesWomen in motion picturesFeminism in literatureLiterature, history and criticism
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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