![]() ![]() What’s striking is that these figures arose at the same time as concerns about emancipated women occupying the public sphere.” “But the femme fatale as we understand it emerged in the late 19th Century, when the term was applied to a range of fin-de-siècle figures such as Salome, Rider Haggard’s She and Bram Stoker’s female vampires. “The figure of the female temptress is as old as Eve,” says O’Rawe. Dr Catherine O’Rawe of Bristol University is the editor of an academic survey of the subject, Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts, and she argues that such fictional seductresses reflect society’s mixed feelings towards independent women. The appeal of the archetype is obvious enough: who wouldn’t want to watch Eva Green wrapping Josh Brolin around her little finger, among other body parts? But the femme fatale doesn’t just give audiences a delectable taste of forbidden fruit. She is just the latest in a long line of cinematic devil women who beguile viewers as surely as they beguile their weak-willed prey. ![]() Her character has a name – Ava Lord – but she might as well be called simply Femme Fatale. ![]() Men, beware! In Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Eva Green is treacherous, deadly and alluring enough to turn a polar ice cap into a cloud of steam. ![]()
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