An edition of The femme fatale
(2010)
The femme fatale
images, histories, contexts
by Helen Hanson and Catherine O'Rawe
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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.
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Table of Contents
Ecoutez la Femme: hear/here the difference / Griselda Pollock
The mother of all Femme fatales: Eve as temptress in Genesis 3 / Karen L. Edwards
Challenging the stereotype: the Femme fatale in Fin-de-siècle art and early cinema / Jess Sully
Silent divas: the Femme fatales of the Italian Cinema muto / Joy Ramirez
'You'll be the death of me': Mata Hari and the myth of the Femme fatale / Rosie White
Diabolically clever- Clouszot's French Noir les diaboliques (1954) / Susan Hayward
Fatal femininity in post-war British film: investigating the British Femme / Melanie Bell
'Put the blame on... Mei': Zhang Ziyi and the politics of global stardom / Olga Kourelou
Gender, genre and stardom: fatality in Italian neorealist cinema / Catherine O'Rawe
The Femme fatale of Spanish retro Noir: the recuperation of a repressed voice / Ann Davies
Chiaroscuro: the half-glimpsed Femme fatale of Italian Film noir / Mary Wood
A myth is born: the Femme fatale in the golden age of Mexican cinema / John L. Marambio and Marcie Rinka
'I can't tell anymore whether you're lying': Double indemnity, Human desire and the narratology of Femmes fatales / Steve Neale
'Well, aren't we ambitious', or 'you've made up your mind I'm guilty': reading women as wicked in American Film noir / Julie Grossman
The big seduction: feminist film criticism and the Femme fatale / Helen Hanson.
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