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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Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 21 Jul 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780230203617
About Catherine O'RaweHelen Hanson
MELANIE BELL Lecturer in Film at Newcastle University UK ANN DAVIES Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Newcastle University UK KAREN L. EDWARDS Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Exeter UK JULIE GROSSMAN Professor of English and Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse New York USA SUSAN HAYWARD Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Exeter UK OLGA KOURELOU PhD student at King's College London UK JOHN L. MARAMBIO Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the University of San Diego California USA STEVE NEALE Professor of Film Studies at Exeter University UK GRISELDA POLLOCK Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds UK JOY RAMIREZ PhD Comparative Literature has taught Italian literature and film at the University of Colorado the Colorado College and Vanderbilt University USA MARCIE RINKA taught most recently the University of San Diego USA JESS SULLY MPhil in Comparative Literature and History of Art at Goldsmiths College University of London UK ROSIE WHITE Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University UK MARY WOOD Professor of European Cinema at Birkbeck University of London UK