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The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Helen Hanson

    1. Department of English, University of Exeter, UK

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  2. Catherine O’Rawe

    1. University of Bristol, UK

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: ‘Cherchez la femme’

    1. Introduction: ‘Cherchez la femme’

      • Helen Hanson, Catherine O’Rawe
      Pages 1-8

  3. Ecoutez la Femme: Hear/Here Difference

    1. Ecoutez la Femme: Hear/Here Difference

      • Griselda Pollock
      Pages 9-32

  6. Femmes Fatales in European and World Cinemas

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. The Femme Fatale of Spanish Retro Noir: The Recuperation of a Repressed Voice

      • Ann Davies
      Pages 145-156

    3. Chiaroscuro: The Half-Glimpsed Femme Fatale of Italian Film Noir

      • Mary Wood
      Pages 157-169

    4. A Myth Is Born: The Femme Fatale in the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema

      • John L. Marambio, Marcie Rinka
      Pages 170-183
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About this book

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.

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'These bracing essays offer many fresh insights into the well-known trope of the femme fatale, a subject that has received much recent critical attention, but seldom with the skill and perception that characterizes this volume. [...] An excellent book for women's studies, film noir classes, or any course that studies the female protagonist in film history. [...] Highly recommended.' - G. A. Foster, Choice

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, University of Exeter, UK

    Helen Hanson

  • University of Bristol, UK

    Catherine O’Rawe

About the editors

MELANIE BELL Lecturer in Film at Newcastle University, UK ANN DAVIES Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Newcastle University, UK KAREN L. EDWARDS Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Exeter, UK JULIE GROSSMAN Professor of English and Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, USA SUSAN HAYWARD Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Exeter, UK OLGA KOURELOU PhD student at King's College London, UK JOHN L. MARAMBIO Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the University of San Diego, California, USA STEVE NEALE Professor of Film Studies at Exeter University, UK GRISELDA POLLOCK Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds, UK JOY RAMIREZ PhD Comparative Literature, has taught Italian literature and film at the University of Colorado, the Colorado College and Vanderbilt University, USA MARCIE RINKA taught most recently the University of San Diego, USA JESS SULLY MPhil in Comparative Literature and History of Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK ROSIE WHITE Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University, UK MARY WOOD Professor of European Cinema at Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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