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The Three Sam Spades: The Shifting Model of American Masculinity in the Three Films of The Maltese Falcon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon—starring the quintessential hard-boiled private detective, Sam Spade—was adapted for the screen not once, but three times: The Maltese Falcon (also known as Dangerous Female) directed by Roy Del Ruth (US ...
Gates, Philippa
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Evolución de la femme fatale en Cautivo del deseo: de la tentación y la humillación a la locura y la muerte

open access: yesVivat Academia, 2015
En este artículo se analiza la evolución del personaje femenino en la película Cautivo del deseo (Of human boundage, John Cromwell, 1934), interpretada por Bette Davis y Leslie Howard.
Mariona Visa Barbosa
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Cathy Ames as a Femme Fatale in East of Eden: Steinbeck and Kazan [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Journal of English Studies
Through the lens of the femme fatale trope, this article compares the portrayal of Cathy Ames from John Steinbeck’s East of Eden in the novel and the 1955 film adaptation directed by Elia Kazan.
Tomasz Śledź
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Circé l’ambiguë : quelques révisions d’une figure mythique dans la littérature hispano-américaine

open access: yesCahiers d’Études Romanes, 2013
Sorcière ou magicienne, femme fatale ou vulnérable, maîtresse ou victime de son destin, Circé possède une ambigüité propre à inspirer de nombreuses réécritures. Ainsi, des écrivains latino-américains comme Julio Cortázar, Julio Torri, Claribel Alegría ou
Sandra Gondouin
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Review of \u3cem\u3eFatal Women of Romanticism\u3c/em\u3e by Adriana Craciun [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The publication of Adriana Craciun\u27s Fatal Women is a welcome event for all those working on British women writers of the early Gothic era. In clearly focused and densely researched chapters on Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, Mary Lamb, Charlotte ...
Hoeveler, Diane
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Le syndrome de la femme fatale : « Matricide » et représentation féminine au Québec, 1898-1940 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Between 1867 and 1976, when the death penalty was abolished in Canada, sixteen women faced the death penalty in Québec for their crime. Five of them found guilty for murdering their husband.
Bernier, Joanne, Cellard, André
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The Clinch

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 117-121, April 2025.
Anna Devereux
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Lilith, la primera femme fatale: Estereotipos literarios y cinematográficos

open access: yesLetras
El término Femme Fatale comenzó a escucharse, metafóricamente, luego de la película A foll there was (1915) con el personaje representado por la actriz Theda Bara, que mostraba a una mujer ambiciosa, peligrosa y cautivante para los hombres.
Francia Andrade
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Review of Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques by Maggie Tonkin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Review of Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques by Maggie ...
Osborn, Jennifer
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Hon klädde av sig framför spegeln

open access: yesTidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2011
She undressed herself in front of the mirror: Sigfrid Siwertz’s Portrayal of Women in the Short Story Collections, Margot and Cirkeln. This text examines how Sigfrid Siwertz describes women in his first two short story collections, Margot (1906) and ...
Lydia Wistisen
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