Essays Tagged: "Femme fatale"
Review of "Double Indemnity"
e characters involved in the plot. Somewhat customary to the film noir genre is the presence of the femme fatale, who by nature is out to exploit anyone in her way to accomplish her objective. "Double ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
"The Apparition": by Gustave Moreau
legend. Moreau style was focused on classical mythology and literature. The importance of mythical femme fatale, sphinxes, sirens, and other dangerous creature on his visionary style categorized Gust ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
"Describe the concept of the Femme Fatale, using two found texts to support your argument."
ey became increasingly sexually defined, more forthright and dominant, and spawned the image of the femme fatale. It originates from the French "fatal woman" meaning one who utilises the malign power ... of her sexuality to ensnare men.Painted in 1530, Lucas Cranach's Salome epitomizes the figure of a femme fatale. Salome was once called upon to dance for King Herod who was very much entranced by her ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
"Casablanca": An historical Movie
ons of the three main characters: Victor Laszlo, a heroic political leader; Ilsa Lund, an enigmatic femme fatale; and Richard (Rick) Blaine, a seemingly morally ambiguous1 night club owner. An unusual ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
When Theatre and Violence clash: a comparing essay on 80's and 90's drama
usic, video games and theatre. Oscar Wilde's "Salome" shocked British theatre with its display of a femme fatale and the violent beheading scene. Sarah Kane's "Blasted" features sexual assault, homose ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Chinatown
Nicholson, is a private detective in Los Angeles. Sharing the spotlight is Fay Dunaway playing the femme fatale Evelyn Mulwray. Chinatown has formal elements indicative that it is going to be in the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
“Lady Of Shalott” And “Mariana And The Moated Grange”
representation of women there is an interesting parallel to the genre of the maternal wife and the femme fatale. In "Mariana", the dejected heroine waits for a cut-off from the world, bo ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"Blade Runner": In depth look at the "love" scene with Rachael and Deckard.
“better” replications.When we first meet Rachael, she comes across as a hard, bold, “femme fatale” character. Deckard is mostly unturned, even with her beautiful architecture. But ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Issues of Character: Noir and Neo-noir Noir and neo-noir
etectives or private eyes, who encountered violent crimes and corruption. A beautiful but dangerous femme fatale offers love and sexuality, but manipulates the detective and brings deception and death ... ferent lights. Be it the dark, wet streets of The Big Sleep with its keen, cool private eye and its femme-fatales. Or it could be the cynical wit of Pulp Fiction with its circular chronology and very ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Gun Crazy analysis - a dominant femme fatale, an erotic love and obsession with guns.
film noir based on a fast-paced story, which is propelled along with numerous stick-ups, a dominant femme fatale, an erotic love and obsession with guns, and the deadly sexual attraction between two m ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Femme Fatale In Literature Over Time
How is the Femme Fatale character represented in William Makepeace Thackery's Vanity Fair, and Scott Ziehl's Cr ... r, there are some texts that challenge this standard way of thinking. These texts usually feature a Femme Fatale - a woman who leads a man to his doom by exploiting his weaknesses. Vanity Fair, writte ... morally is not important. She is incredibly vain, wicked and seductive. Becky's representation of a Femme Fatale is emphasised by the extreme contrast between her and Amelia, her closest friend. Ameli ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Comparative Essays