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FEMME TALES

Author : Roberta Parry
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456813943
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book FEMME TALES written by Roberta Parry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEMME TALES: Six Short Sagas and One Long Story is a playful, irreverent, sometimes camp re-vision of seven of the Grimm’s tales. “Little Red Riding Hood” becomes “Little Red Jogging Suit,” wherein a sparky girl and her spunky grandmother take on a wolf in sheep’s clothing, only to fi nd themselves victims of the legal/judicial system. In “Hannah and Greggo,” closet-cousins of “Hansel and Gretel,” a savvy big sister saves her innocent little brother from the clutches of a wicked warlock. Other rightings-of-the-record include: “The Toad Prince or The Dog Princess or Hopeless Henry,” “Sungold and the Seven Midgets,” “AshesAngie,” “Sweeping Beauty,” and “Ms. Fisherwoman and Spouse,” illegitimate offspring of “The Frog King,” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Cinderella,” “Sleeping Beauty,” and “The Fisherman and His Wife.” May you read with a laugh--and a nod, Parry invites.

Femmes Fatales

Author : Mary Ann Doane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136639047
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Femmes Fatales written by Mary Ann Doane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work of feminist film criticism, Mary Ann Doane examines questions of sexual difference and knowledge in cinematic, theoretical, and psychoanalytic discourses. "Femmes Fatales" examines Freud, the female spectator, the meaning of the close-up, and the nature of stardom. Doane's analyses of such figures as Pabst's Lulu and Rita Hayworth's Gilda trace the thematics and mechanics of maskes, masquerade, and veiling, with specific attention to the form and technology of the cinema. Working through and against the intellectual frameworks of post-structuralist and psychoanalytic theory, Doane interrogates cinematic and theoretical claims to truth about women which rely on judgements about vision and its stability or instability. Reflecting the shift in conceptual priorities within feminist film theory over the last decade, "Femmes Fatales" addresses debates over female spectatorhsip, essentialism and anti-essentialism, the tensions between psychoanalysis and history, and the relations between racial and sexual difference. Doane's nuanced and original readings of the "femme fatale" in cinema illustrate confrontations between feminism, film theory and psychoanalysis. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in women's studies, communications studies and film theory.

Femme Tales

Author : Anne Shade
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1635556562
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Femme Tales written by Anne Shade and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beast: Former hip-hop artist Ebony “The Beast” Trent has wrapped her persona around herself like a protective wall of bitterness. Belinda Jansen is confident, intelligent, sexy, and—to Ebony's fascination—not the least bit intimidated by Ebony’s beastly demeanor. Can Beauty truly tame The Beast? Awaken: Local celebrity chef Chayse Carmichael has achieved a level of success she’d only imagined while learning to cook. But when free-spirited Georgia peach Serena Frasier walks into her restaurant, Chayse realizes that success doesn’t always bring happiness if you don’t have someone special to share it with. Does love at first sight truly exist? Stiletto: Music mogul Cass Phillips barely has a moment to sleep, let alone build a relationship. But an unexpected encounter with shoe designer Faith Shaw leads her to believe that maybe fairy tales do come true. Can true love really conquer all? Six women find themselves in their own real-life fairy tales when true love finds them in the most unexpected ways.

Femme Fatale

Author : Guy de Maupassant
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141398345
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Femme Fatale written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). Maupassant's works available in Penguin Classics are A Parisian Affair and Other Stories, Bel-Ami and Pierre and Jean.

Femme Fatale-ish

Author : Misha Bell
Publisher : Mozaika Publications
ISBN 13 : 1631427113
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Femme Fatale-ish written by Misha Bell and published by Mozaika Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Blue—insert a mood-related joke here—and I’m a femme fatale in training. My goal is to join the CIA. Unfortunately, I have a tiny issue with birds, and the closest I’ve come to my dream is working for a government agency that’s disturbingly up-to-speed on everyone’s sexts, rants in private Facebook groups, and secret family chocolate-chip cookie recipes. I know I’m a spy cliché, that agent who works at a desk but craves fieldwork. However, I have a plan: I’m going to infiltrate the secretive Hot Poker Club, where I’ve spotted a mysterious, sexy stranger who I’m convinced is a Russian spy. And once I'm in? All I have to do is seduce the presumed spy without falling for him, so I can expose his true identity and prove my femme fatale bona fides to the CIA. I never lose concentration at work, so that'll be an absolute breeze for me. Oh, and did I mention he's sexy? I’m doing it for my country, not my ovaries, I pinky swear. WARNING: Now that you’ve finished reading this, your device will self-destruct in five seconds. NOTE: This is a standalone, raunchy, slow-burn romantic comedy featuring a quirky, spy-movie-obsessed heroine, a scorching hot maybe-Russian, several terrifying tales about birds, and lots of text debates about the relative cuteness of animals. If any of the above is not your cup of tea, run far, far away. Otherwise, buckle up for a laugh-out-loud, feel-good ride.

Vamps

Author : Pam Keesey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Vamps written by Pam Keesey and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A lavishly illustrated survey of screen sirens and bad girls.' - Booklist

Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir

Author : J. Grossman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230274986
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir written by J. Grossman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of nineteenth-century Victorinoir and close readings of original-cycle film noir, Julie Grossman argues that the presence of the "femme fatale" figure, as she is understood in film criticism and popular culture, is drastically over-emphasized and has helped to sustain cultural obsessions with "bad" women.

The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910

Author : Heather Braun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611475627
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910 written by Heather Braun and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910 explores the femme fatale's career in nineteenth-century British literature. It traces her evolution--and devolution--formally, historically, and ideologically through a selection of plays, poems, novels, and personal correspondence. Considering well-known fatal women alongside more obscure ones, The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale sheds new light on emerging notions of gender, sexuality, and power throughout the long nineteenth century. By placing the fatal woman in a still-developing literary and cultural narrative, this study examines how the femme fatale adapts over time, reflecting popular tastes and socio-economic landscapes.

The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts

Author : Helen Hanson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230282016
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts written by Helen Hanson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in contemporary cinema.

The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema

Author : Antônio Márcio da Silva
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113739921X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The “Femme” Fatale in Brazilian Cinema written by Antônio Márcio da Silva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male homosexuals into the range of "femmes" fatales and examines how the Brazilian representations cross gender, race, and class and offer alternatives to the dominant Hollywood model.

Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 6

Author : M. J. Addy
Publisher : Castle Bridge Media
ISBN 13 : 9781736472682
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 6 written by M. J. Addy and published by Castle Bridge Media. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme is Femme Fatale-that beautiful and seductive temptress who is sure to cause disaster and destruction wherever she chooses to go. This time, for the Castle of Horror, we're taking a dark peek into the mind of the female. These are horror stories from females, about females, edited by a female, each one featuring a clever twist on the femme fatale. Is she the villain or is she the hero? With everything from demons and snakes to taxidermy and strip poker, we've pulled together 16 tales that may leave you looking at your wife, your lover, your best friend, or just your next door neighbor, wondering "what is she really thinking?" Featuring stories from P. J. Hoover, Joy Preble, Christina Berry, Shelli Cornelison, Jessica Lee Anderson, Bernadette Johnson, S. de Freitas, Madeline Smoot, Carmen Gray, Jess Hagemann, Britta Jensen, S. N. Rodriguez, Miracle Austin, Katya de Becerra, M.J. Addy, and Beth Kander.

By Cécile

Author : Tereska Torres
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558618066
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book By Cécile written by Tereska Torres and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming of age novel set in post-war France by an author who “launched the modern genre of the lesbian paperback” (Susan Stryker, author of Queer Pulp). When eighteen-year-old Cécile is orphaned at the end of World War II, the curious and adventurous Catholic student finds refuge in Paris, and with an older man. A former member of the Resistance with Cécile’s parents, Maurice is handsome, a thrilling cultured patron of the arts, and a mentor eager to introduce the budding young author to his intimate circle of friends—Cocteau, Sartre, and Eartha Kitt! As liberating an influence as he is, Maurice also encourages Cécile to shed her inhibitions he sees as bourgeois. Possessing a sensual and passionate temperament, Cécile is eager to begin exploring—by sharing Maurice’s mistress, and writing of every life-changing and delightfully scandalous new experience. Credited with penning the first, candidly lesbian novel—Women’s Barracks, in 1950—Tereska Torrès “scandalized mid-century America” (The New York Times). In By Cécile, written in 1963, “Madame Torres has re-imagined a youthful Colette (here called Cécile) in the infinitely seductive post-World War II period in Paris, where she moves like a sleeping princess through the perverse fairy tales of man-made cafe society. [It’s] a sharply perceptive novel” (Joan Schenkar, author of The Talented Miss Highsmith).

Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales

Author : Patricia Pulham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351957104
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales written by Patricia Pulham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her persuasively argued study, Patricia Pulham astutely combines psychoanalytic theory with socio-historical criticism to examine a selection of fantastic tales by the female aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935). Lee's own definition of the supernatural in the preface to Hauntings questions the nature of the 'genuine ghost', and argues that this figure is not found in the Society of Psychical Research but in our own psyches, where it functions as a mediator between past and present. Using D.W. Winnicott's 'transitional object' theory, which maintains that adults transfer their childhood engagement with toys to art and cultural artifacts, Pulham argues that the prevalence of the past in Lee's tales signifies not only an historical but a psychic past. Thus the 'ghosts' that haunt Lee's supernatural fiction, as well as her aesthetic, psychological, and historical writings, held complex meanings for her that were fundamental to her intellectual development and allowed her to explore alternative identities that permit the expression of transgressive sexualities.

Jealous Rage: Stunning True Tales of Intimates, Passion, and Murder (Volume 1)

Author : R. Barri Flowers
Publisher : R. Barri Flowers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jealous Rage: Stunning True Tales of Intimates, Passion, and Murder (Volume 1) written by R. Barri Flowers and published by R. Barri Flowers. This book was released on with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From R. Barri Flowers, award-winning criminologist and the bestselling author of Murder at the Pencil Factory, Murder Chronicles, Murder During the Chicago World’s Fair, Serial Killer Couples, and The Sex Slave Murders, comes the gripping historical true crime anthology, Jealous Rage: Stunning True Tales of Intimates, Passion, and Murder (Volume 1). Each chapter will chronicle a riveting, real life, age-old murder case involving jealousy, betrayal, and homicidal fury between spouses, lovers, and others caught in the fatal crossfire, and justice being served or not. Chapter 1: Murder of the U.S. Attorney: Congressman Sickles’ Crime of Passion in 1859 Chapter 2: Murder of the Doctor’s Wife: The 1867 Crimes of Bridget Durgan Chapter 3: Murder of the French Lover: The Killing of Madame Lassimonne in 1892 Chapter 4: Murderess on the Loose: The 1922 Hammer Wrath of Clara Phillips Chapter 5: Killer of Her Husband’s Secretary: The 1935 Love Triangle Ire of Etta Reisman Chapter 6: Murdered by the King of Western Swing: The Beating Death of Ella Mae Cooley in 1961 Chapter 7: Murder of the Horse Trainer’s Rival: The 1978 Bitter Breakup of Buddy Jacobson and the Model Chapter 8: Murder of a Star Quarterback in 2009: The Tragic Tale of Steve McNair and Sahel Kazemi Bonus material includes two complete and captivating historical true crime shorts, The Amityville Massacre: The DeFeo Family's Nightmare, and Missing or Murdered: The Disappearance of Agnes Tufverson; as well as excerpts from the author’s bestselling books The Sex Slave Murders: The True Story of Serial Killers Gerald & Charlene Gallego; The Dreadful Acts of Jack the Ripper and Other True Tales of Serial Murder and Prostitutes; Murder During the Chicago World's Fair: The Killing of Little Emma Werner; and Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers, and Victims of the Twentieth Century.

The Chinese Femme Fatale

Author : Anne Elizabeth McLaren
Publisher : Wild Peony Pty Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Femme Fatale written by Anne Elizabeth McLaren and published by Wild Peony Pty Limited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines one of the most potent images in traditional China: the femme fatale, a beautiful woman whose sexual dominance leads to the destruction of her family and society at large. These stories were written to meet the needs of a significant literate class that emerged with the growth of towns in the Ming period. The stories are entertaining and at times risqué and raunchy. This is the first published anthology of Chinese femme-fatale stories, because previous anthologies have been devoted to "virtuous" women.

Tales from Du Bois

Author : Erika Renée Williams
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438488203
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Tales from Du Bois written by Erika Renée Williams and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from Du Bois brings together critical race theory, queer studies, philosophy, and genre theory to offer an illuminating new comprehensive study of W. E. B. Du Bois's fiction from 1903–1928. Erika Renée Williams begins by revisiting Du Bois's tale of being rebuffed by a white female classmate in The Souls of Black Folk, identifying it as a failure of what she calls "cross-caste romance"—a sentimental, conjugal, or erotic relation projected across lines of cultural difference. In Du Bois's text, this failure figures as the cause of double consciousness, the experience of looking at oneself through the eyes of others. Far from being unique to Souls, the trope of cross-caste romance, Williams argues, structures much of Du Bois's literary oeuvre. With it, Du Bois queries romance's capacity to ground nationalism, on the one hand, and to foment queer forms of Afro-Diasporic reclamation and kinship, on the other. Beautifully written and deftly argued, Tales from Du Bois analyzes familiar works like Souls and Dark Princess alongside neglected short fiction to make a case for the value of Du Bois's literary writing and its centrality to his thought more broadly.

Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551115788
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales written by Vernon Lee and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernon Lee writes in the Preface to Hauntings, “My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts... of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own.” First published in 1890, Lee’s most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. This collection, which includes the four stories originally published in Hauntings and three others, enables readers to consider Lee’s work anew for its subtle redefinitions of gender and sexuality during the Victorian fin-de-siècle. The appendices, which include extensive excerpts from writings by Lee’s predecessors and peers, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and Lee’s brother Eugene Lee-Hamilton, allow the reader to see how Lee takes on the themes and preoccupations of the late-Victorian period but adapts them to her own purposes.