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The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hanson, Helen (Editor), O’Rawe, Catherine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2010, 2010
Subjects:
Film And Television Studies
Communication
Cultural Studies
Sex (psychology)
Fine Arts
Cultural And Media Studies
Motion Pictures And Television
Social History
Culture / Study And Teaching
Media Studies
Sociology
Gender Studies
Gender Expression
Gender Identity
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:XIV, 236 p online resource
ISBN:9780230282018

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