Format:
XIV, 236 S.
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Ill.
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23 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0230203612
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9780230203617
Content:
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
Note:
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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Ecoutez la Femme: hear/here the difference
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The mother of all Femme fatales: Eve as temptress in Genesis 3
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Challenging the stereotype: the Femme fatale in Fin-de-siècle art and early cinema
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Silent divas: the Femme fatales of the Italian Cinema muto
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'You'll be the death of me': Mata Hari and the myth of the Femme fatale
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Diabolically clever- Clouszot's French Noir les diaboliques (1954)
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Fatal femininity in post-war British film: investigating the British Femme
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'Put the blame on... Mei': Zhang Ziyi and the politics of global stardom
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Gender, genre and stardom: fatality in Italian neorealist cinema
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The Femme fatale of Spanish retro Noir: the recuperation of a repressed voice
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Chiaroscuro: the half-glimpsed Femme fatale of Italian Film noir
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A myth is born: the Femme fatale in the golden age of Mexican cinema
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'I can't tell anymore whether you're lying': Double indemnity, Human desire and the narratology of Femmes fatales
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'Well, aren't we ambitious', or 'you've made up your mind I'm guilty': reading women as wicked in American Film noir
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The big seduction: feminist film criticism and the Femme fatale
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe The femme fatale Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 ISBN 9780230282018
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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General works
Keywords:
Femme fatale
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Literatur
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Film
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