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Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale: From Pandora's Box to Amanda Knox
Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale From Pandora's Box to Amanda Knox
Author: Stevie Simkin
The figure of the beautiful but lethal woman has haunted the Western imagination from ancient myth (Pandora, Eve, Lilith) to contemporary cinema. However, there are also remarkable 'real life' cases of women on trial for murder who have been represented as 'femmes fatales', including Frances Howard in the court of King James I, Ruth Snyder (the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780230355699
ISBN-10: 0230355692
Publication Date: 9/30/2014
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Hardcover
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