The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts

by Helen Hanson, Catherine O'Rawe

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.

250 pages, Hardcover

First published July 21, 2010

Reviews

[Elari]

Happy enough to have discovered movies such as Gilda, Double Indemnity, and Niagara. Yes--you need to be into cinema to enjoy this book.