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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...

Femmes fatales in literature. --- Watkins, Maurine.