Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale: From Pandora's Box to Amanda Knox - Hardcover
Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale: From Pandora's Box to Amanda Knox - Hardcover
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by S. Simkin (Author)
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.
Author Biography
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).
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