If you've ever read a hardboiled detective novel, or seen a film noir, the first scene of SundanceTV's new southern crime thriller Hap & Leonard will seem very, very familiar. "Here comes trouble," ...
COMMENTARY: History and literature are full of femmes formidables who shine forth feminine faith and fortitude.
Scary and seductive, the femme fatale of the '70s varied from folk horror to Hitchcock villains – find out where they are now ...
(Juergen Teller’s Louis XV No. 2, Paris, 2004, featuring Charlotte Rampling. Courtesy of the photographer.) In Snapshots of Dangerous Women, a charming book of found photographs dating from the first ...
A recent study published in the journal Social Sciences has found that stories about dangerous, attractive women are almost universal across different cultures. These cautionary tales suggest that men ...
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The best femme fatales from film and television
An evocative inversion of the “damsel in distress” trope, the femme fatale has become one of cinema’s most compelling character archetypes. A femme fatale is a cunning seductress ensnaring men with ...
Few film archetypes have been more adored or debated than the femme fatale - beautiful, seductive, dangerous and cunning, like Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity"... (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DOUBLE ...
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