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New PDF release: Femme Fatale: Cinema's Most Unforgettable Lethal Ladies

By James Ursini,Dominique Mainon

(Limelight). From the femme fatale of the early cinema to her post-feminist rebirth, this lavishly illustrated e-book and accomplished advisor strains the historical past of those dangerously eye-catching, manipulative, and determined deadly women. Femme Fatale surveys the background of the femme fatale in international cinema, with greater than three hundred pictures attesting to the facility of those mysterious ladies. The publication starts off with the silent interval and its vamps, like Theda Bara, Pola Negri, Clara Bow, and Bebe Daniels, then strikes directly to the Pre-Code sound interval of yankee movies, which, exhibiting liberated attitudes towards intercourse and girls, featured actresses like Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, and Greta Garbo. the tale maintains with the noir Forties, whilst the femme fatale turned really deadly together with actresses like Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and Barbara Stanwyck. within the repressive Fifties, the foreign femme fatale took the fore Brigitte Bardot, Maria Felix, Elizabeth Taylor, Anita Ekberg, and so forth. eventually, the authors flip to the innovative post-feminist smooth interval, with an array of deadly women from around the globe, like Pam Grier, Salma Hayek, Gong Li, Angelina Jolie, and Sharon Stone.

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