In Snapshots of Dangerous Women, a charming book of found photographs dating from the first half of the 20th century and assembled by Peter J. Cohen, anonymous young women are pictured doing all the ...

Folk horror and the modern world converged during the 1970s and produced perhaps cinema's most varied selection of femme fatales to date. From Britt Ekland's impassioned seduction of Sergeant Howie in ...

An evocative inversion of the “damsel in distress” trope, the femme fatale has become one of cinema’s most compelling character archetypes. A femme fatale is a cunning seductress ensnaring men with ...

From villainous vixens to irresistible beauty and scandalous powers of persuasion, the femme fatales of the 1980s were some of the most formidable characters in Hollywood's dark history. Boiling ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Sordid tales of sex and power have turned the Hollywood studio system into a scandal sheet of horrors. Yes, there was always “the casting couch,” those couches where casting ...