Beginning in 1944, just as the soft femme fatale is joined by the hard one, so too are crimes for personal property joined by those for “public property,” whose definition I provide, along with examples from many post-war crime noirs in this same post. ...
Film costumes worn by the femme fatale are crucial, and are defining elements in genre recognition precisely because of their explicit cinematic visualization, rather than functioning as unequivocal signs. This article proposes a methodology for film costume researchers to conduct a pictorial analysis, ...
A femme fatale is a seductive and beautiful woman who brings disaster to anyone with whom she becomes romantically involved. The femme fatale is an archetype that appears throughout history in mythology, art, and literature and became a principal charact