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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...