The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations Introduction: 'Cherchez la femme '; H.Hanson & C.O'Rawe Ecoutez la Femme : Hear/Here Difference; G.Pollock PART ONE: LITERARY AND VISUAL ARCHETYPES The Mother of All Femmes Fatales : Eve as Temptress in Genesis 3; K.Edwards Challenging the Stereotype: The Femme Fatale in Fin-de-Siecle Art and Early Cinema; J.Sully Silent Divas: The Femmes Fatales of the Italian Cinema muto; J.Ramirez You'll be the Death of Me: Mata Hari and the Myth of the Femme Fatale; R.White PART TWO: FILM STARS Diabolically Clever - Clouzot's French Noir Les Diaboliques (1954); S.Hayward Fatal Femininity in Post-War British Film: Investigating the British Femme; M.Bell Put the Blame on...Mei: Zhang Ziyi and the Politics of Global Stardom; O.Kourelou Gender, Genre and Stardom: Fatality in Italian Neorealist Cinema; C.O'Rawe PART THREE: FEMME FATALES IN EUROPEAN AND WORLD CINEMAS The Femme Fatale of Spanish Retro Noir : the Recuperation of a Repressed Voice; A.Davies Chiaroscuro : the Half-glimpsed Femme Fatale of Italian Film Noir; M.Wood A Myth is Born: The Femme Fatale in the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema; M.Rinka & J.Marambio PART FOUR: HOLLYWOOD 'I Can't Tell Anymore Whether You're Lying': Double Indemnity, Human Desire and the Narratology of Femmes Fatales; S.Neale 'Well, aren't we ambitious', or 'You've Made up Your Mind I'm Guilty': Reading Women as Wicked in American Film Noir; J.Grossman The Big Seduction: Feminist Film Criticism and the Femme Fatale; H.Hanson Notes Bibliography Index