The femme fatale has been one of film’s most fascinating archetypes since the earliest days of the medium. Sexy, self-assured, and quite often murderous, she seduces and destroys with abandon ...

The femme fatale is a figure that dates back centuries. In Greek mythology there were The Sirens, whose song dragged sailors to the depths of the seas, as well as Clytemnestra — wife, seductress ...

The femme fatale is a beautiful and enigmatic female character who uses her charms and attractiveness as means to her nefarious ends. Works of 19th-century French criticism first coined the term ...

Three new exhibitions explore how the femme fatale in art reflects evolving anxieties, writes Cath Pound. The figure of the femme fatale is one of the defining literary and artistic motifs of the ...

The Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale was founded by Gwendolyn Rainey. They started with 13 ladies in 2013 , and now 12 years later, they have a strong membership of over 1,400 women in over 26 states.

In the beginning, after God created heaven, Earth and a man He called Adam, He fashioned the first femme fatale — Eve. When she took a bite of what I hope was an extremely delicious apple, not ...

Perhaps as a result, Rossetti's femme fatales, such as Helen of Troy (1863), are "never resolved. They're always ambiguous and ambivalent," says Jacobi.