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Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale: From Pandora's Box to Amanda Knox
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.
245 pages, Hardcover
First published September 30, 2014
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October 1, 2018
Innovative exploration of how socialised concepts construct the figure of the femme fatale and how these are written over perceived fatal women in real life criminal cases. This is done from a feminist perspective and underscores that attitudes to a woman perceived as a femme fatale have not much altered. This is an academic work, but is written in a readable style with limited recourse to dense and often abstruse theoretical ideas.
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