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Seeking to prove to her man Victor that she does have a hustlers instinct and can make her own damn money Erica gets introduced to credit card fraud. Unknowingly her new business mentor is Ty, Victor's nemesis.Erica's new business ventures takes a lucrative twist when she ends up in bed with Ty and gains access to more power than both of her ruthless men
These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in contemporary cinema.
"One murder shatters a beautiful family residing in the metro area of Washington DC. When their father is murdered by a drug addict, two sons slowly drift apart, finding themselves on different sides of the law. With each crime Anthony commits, his older brother Jason is brought closer to a dark secret that could destroy everything he stands for. Will their brotherly love save them from the violent confrontation that awaits?"--Page 4 of cover
A glitzy psychological, suspense thriller that tells how identical beings can be characterized as extreme opposites
How does a Norwegian farm girl become an infamous American serial killer, responsible for upward of 40 murders? Born in rural Norway in 1859, "Belle" Storset Sorenson Gunness was constantly dealt bad hands in life—so she decided to take life into her own hands. In America's Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness, Jane Simon Ammeson traces Gunness's path from a poor teenager rejected by a wealthy lover; to a new wife in Chicago, desperate to escape the poverty of her childhood and impatient for a child to love; to an ambitious, widowed landowner in La Porte, Indiana. Ammeson's careful research reveals how the young immigrant slowly turned into one of America's most dangerous...
The Sirens of Wartime Radio and How the American Print Media Presented Them: The Stories, the Intrigue, and the Evolving Coverage of Their Legacies analyzes press coverage from the American print media that helped construct popular images of Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally, Seoul City Sue, and Hanoi Hannah. Coverage of these “radio sirens” essentially constructed and defined these women’s legacies for an American audience. Scott A. Morton examines newspaper and magazine coverage from the periods of each broadcaster, and in doing so, analyzes four primary research inquires. Morton discusses how American newspapers and magazines portrayed each woman to American readers, how the American mass medi...
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The influence of the plastic arts, especially painting and sculpture, upon the Hispanic literary movement known as Modernismo is well-documented. Although numerous studies have referred to gems, Beyond the Glitter focuses upon the significance of gems and jewels in elaborating Modernismo's complex aesthetics. The role of gems and jewelry is discussed in the poetics of three prominent Modernista writers: Ruben Dario, Ramon del Valle-Inclan, and Jose Asuncion Silva. The conclusion underscores how the rich and varied symbolism associated with jewelry and precious gems enriched the poetics of Modernista writers because it enabled them to articulate their quest for ideal beauty, expressive of a sublime state of mind and spirit.
This book examines what Amr Kamal calls the phenomenon of emporialism, or the convergence between the spaces and imaginaries of empires and emporia in the context of a modern Mediterranean divided among the British, French, and Ottoman empires. By "emporia," Kamal refers to the commercial network of nineteenth-century department stores, which gained prominence after the Suez Canal project. Taking as a focal point French and Egyptian department stores, the author examines emporialism as a set of phenomenological experiences, discursive and social praxes, and mechanisms of control and resistance, born from the intersection of modernity, colonialism, and mass consumption. Drawing on archival evidence, Kamal reads iconographic and literary representations of emporia in English, French, Arabic, and Hebrew, from the nineteenth century to the present, addressing works by Émile Zola, Huda Shaarawi, Jacqueline Kahanoff, and others. Emporialism, Kamal argues, served to rewrite the history of the Mediterranean, to reinvent national belonging, and to interrogate issues of modernity and social justice.
L'immagine della femme fatale è l'immagine di una donna particolare forse più eterea che reale, concentrato di bellezza, sensualità, voluttà, peccato, lussuria, ma sempre e soltanto 'donna'. Per descrivere la femme fatale abbiamo scelto la strada principale delle immagini che come un fiume raccoglie rivoli di pensieri e parole sull'universo femminile; perché se la donna ideale si sogna, si immagina in un mondo irreale e irraggiungibile, la donna è invece reale, presente, viva nella nostra vita così come lo è stato nella vita degli artisti che l'hanno voluta rappresentare attraverso le diverse forme d'arte che nei secoli sono state utilizzate per presentare i propri pensieri, i propri sogni, i propri desideri, la propria volontà di trasmettere ai posteri un pensiero, un immagine, un sogno che è quello della donna: la femme fatale.