The Femme Fatale Images Histories Contexts Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 20 July 2010

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

• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
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• Release Date : 18 September 2020

"The femme Fatale takes a long view on the figure of the femme fatale, exploring her style, language, and stories from silent cinema to contemporary television. Author Julie Grossman provides

• Publisher : Limelight Editions
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• Release Date : 01 October 2009

(Limelight). From the femme fatale of the early cinema to her post-feminist rebirth, this lavishly illustrated book and comprehensive guide traces the history of these dangerously alluring, manipulative, and desperate

• Publisher : Cambria Press
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• Release Date : 16 June 2024

"examines the changing social and economic status of women from the 1860s through the 1880s, and rejects the stereotypical mid-Victorian femme fatale portrayed by conservative ideologues critiquing popular fiction by

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
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• Release Date : 16 June 2024

The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910 explores the femme fatale's career in nineteenth-century British literature. It traces her evolution--and devolution--formally, historically, and ideologically through

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 06 July 2017

The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema. From sci-fi alien women to teenage bad girls, filmmakers continue to draw on the notion of the

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 21 October 2009

In the context of nineteenth-century Victorinoir and close readings of original-cycle film noir, Julie Grossman argues that the presence of the "femme fatale" figure, as she is understood in film

• Publisher : Penguin
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• Release Date : 16 June 2024

The last freelance P.I. on Earth, Zach Johnson has been hired to track down a young beauty who happens to be a deadly secret weapon for the World Council.

• Publisher : Australian Geographic
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• Release Date : 16 June 1979

"In the striking works of pre-Raphaelite, Symbolist and Art Nouveau artists and in their literary parallels, Patrick Bade uncovers an extraordinary, disturbing world of sexual fantasy and a remarkably pervasive

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 16 June 2024

Characters in the literary tradition of American naturalism are usually perceived as passive, lacking in will, weak, and predetermined. They are constantly seen as the victims of heredity and environment,