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Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale

From Pandora's Box to Amanda Knox
By:S. Simkin
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230355699
eText ISBN:9781137313324
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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The figure of the beautiful but lethal woman has haunted the Western imagination from ancient myth to contemporary film. Looking at news media, cinema, drama and other cultural forms, this study considers the interaction between representations of 'real life' 'femmes fatales' and their fictional counterparts.