COMMENTARY: History and literature are full of femmes formidables who shine forth feminine faith and fortitude.

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 19th ...

Few film archetypes have been more adored or debated than the femme fatale - beautiful, seductive, dangerous and cunning, like Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity"... (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DOUBLE ...

Prominent British author, cultural historian, and feminist-Annette Kuhn-mentioned in one of her works that “the femme fatale is primarily defined by her desirable, but dangerous, sexuality- which ...

Fatal Attraction was the world’s highest-grossing film in 1987, on the cover of every magazine, nominated for six Oscars, the subject of dissertations and scholarly books. Another racy work, Josephine ...

December is a quiet month for blockbuster openings; most of the major galleries completed their business back at the start of autumn. But the relative lack of new activity gives more off-piste shows a ...

Fifty years ago next week, audiences got their first glimpse of Elizabeth Taylor sitting atop an enormous sphinx as the titular character in 1963's Cleopatra. She was the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt ...

Meg Walsh joins a long list of women from history whose beauty was their downfall, writes Carol Hunt It's a haunting, unsettling image. The naked body of a beautiful woman is found floating gently in ...