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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
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).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xii
233 S.
ISBN-13: 9781349347216
ISBN-10: 1349347213
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Simkin, S.
Auflage: 1st edition 2014
Hersteller: Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 216 x 140 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: S. Simkin
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2014
Gewicht: 0,317 kg
Artikel-ID: 103730469

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