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Author Tóth, Zsófia Anna

Title Merry murderers : the farcical (re)figuration of the femme fatale in Maurine Dallas Watkins' Chicago (1927) and its various adaptations / by Zsófia Anna Tóth
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 278 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary This book explores the different trends and the various changes in the representational history of femmes fatales Otherin twentieth century American culture. While providing precedents, discussing the Western cultural history of this iconic female figure as well as presenting the cultural and theoretical debates surrounding 'her, ' the major focus lies in Maurine Dallas Watkins's story entitled Chicago and how its diachronic and transmedial revivals contributed to this debate and what kind of a ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Watkins, Maurine. Chicago.
SUBJECT Chicago (Watkins, Maurine) fast
Subject Femmes fatales in literature.
Films, cinema.
Cultural studies.
Gender studies: women.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Femmes fatales in literature
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443832298
1443832294
9786613240842
6613240842