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The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts

By:Helen Hanson; Catherine O'Rawe
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230203617
eText ISBN:9780230282018
Edition:0
Copyright:2010
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.