Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale

From Pandora's Box to Amanda Knox

S. Simkin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

233 Seiten

2014
MacMillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-35569-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Stevie Simkin is Reader in Drama and Film at the University of Winchester, UK. He is the author of, among other works, studies of Basic Instinct (2013) and Straw Dogs (2011) in the Controversies series, Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence (2005)and A Preface to Marlowe (2000).

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Defining the Femme Fatale 2. Frances Howard (1590-1632) 3. Ruth Snyder (1891-1928) 4. Amanda Knox Conclusion References Notes

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.10.2014
Zusatzinfo	XII, 233 p.
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-230-35569-2 / 0230355692
ISBN-13	978-0-230-35569-9 / 9780230355699
Zustand	Neuware