Evil Women: Representations Within Literature, Culture and Film
- ISBN-10
- 9004499504
- ISBN-13
- 9789004499508
- Series
- Evil Women
- Category
- Good and evil
- Pages
- 164
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022
- Authors
- Robyn Muir, Beatrice Frasl, Christie Marie Lauder
Description
"Evil women, who are they really? What are their motives, and how are they remembered and constructed within our culture? Evil Women: Representations within Literature, Culture and Film seeks to interrogate the nature and construction of evil women in the above fields. Through literature, poetry, history, ballads, film and real-life culture, scholars explore how the evil woman has been constructed and, in some cases, erased; the punishment and treatment of evil women; and the way evil women have been portrayed on and off screen through character, narrative and behind the camera development"--
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