Femme fatale Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
, exotic dancer and convicted spy, made her name synonymous with femme fatale during WWI.]]- When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
She has existed, in one form or another, in folklore and myth in nearly all cultures. Some of the earliest examples include Judeo-Christian characters Lilith, Eve, Delilah and Salomé. With the introduction of film noir in the 1940s, the femme fatale began to flourish in pop culture. Examples include espionage thrillers, and in a number of adventure comic strips, such as The Spirit by Will Eisner, or Terry and the Pirates by Milton Caniff.
In the Anglo-Saxon world, she is often of foreign extraction. She is often portrayed as a sort of sexual vampire; her dark appetites were thought to be able to leach away the virility and independence of her lovers, leaving them shells of their former selves. Only by escaping her embraces could the hero be rescued. On this account, in earlier American slang femmes fatales were often called "vamps", a word that is associated with the fashions of the 1920s.
This stock character is celebrated in the song Femme Fatale by The Velvet Underground.
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Bram Dijkstra has written two shrill but nevertheless amusing books that discuss the femme fatale stereotype at great length:
Femme Fatale is also a 2003 movie starring Rebecca Romijn-Stamos.
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