The Czernin case is categorized as a failure by Austrian Counterintelligence to detect and halt a “femme fatale” operation implemented by the Gestapo and foreign office of Nazi Germany with the goal of targeting the Austrian chancellor in pursuit of documents that would have dealt a fatal blow to the Third Reich and Hitler himself (Koehler‚ 1940). There were many reasons for the failure of Austrian CI‚ however‚ the primary reasons can be chalked up to capabilities and failure to recognize indications
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appraising‚ judging the audience from a throne‚ however her physical features and small face denote a sense of innocence and immaturity which has been corrupted. The 1934 film Cleopatra starring Claudette Colbert is not the aggressive and domineering femme fatale like Bara’s Cleopatra; instead she seems breathlessly emotional. In this film the struggle for political power in Egypt is disregarded. Cleopatra’s only object seems to be finding love‚ being passively caught between two great men. Her role as
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The word “archetype” today means a stereotype; a definition of something that comes to us naturally and that is plugged into our consciousness. So where did we get these archetypes from? What society began the main traits that our characters have followed ever since? Our society has followed behind Greek influences since the beginning‚ probably because Greece is one of the oldest known civilizations to humans. Literature as well‚ has been followed up to today. Homers’ epic poem‚ The Odyssey‚ presents
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The movie Out of the Past directed by Jacques Tourneur fits within the traditions of film noir because it has some similar themes associated with it‚ such as doomed love. Robert Mitchum plays the doomed‚ double-crossed ‚ ex-private eye as Jeff Markham. The femme fatale is played by Jane Greer as Kathie Moffat‚ who is trying to escape her future. Kirk Douglas as Whit Sterling plays the ruthless gangster czar in the film. The formal cinematic elements in the movie are used to vividly describe the movie
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Pin-Up or Pin-Down? Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism‚ Sexuality‚ Popular Culture is a book written by Maria Elena Buszek that explains how third-wave feminists are taking back pin-up culture. This new pin-up culture is shown developing through a 150 year time span. Buszek examines old and new female sex symbols as well as the beginnings of this new revival of the pin-up genre. This book illustrates how women are often publicly depicted and the representation of our sexualities since the early 1860’s. Buszek
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When presented with the challenge of identifying gender and sexuality in science fiction we must first agree that women and men are inherently of equal worth‚ as many writers of feminist science fiction use the genre’s position to discuss issues of change‚ injustice‚ and social partitions (Calvin). The motif of gender and sexuality in science fiction is not restricted to just one subgenre of science fiction but shows up in nearly all varieties‚ creating hybrids in the science fiction world. The
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The Maltese Falcon: The Film & Book Dashiell Hammett was a prolific writer of short stories for the pulp magazines in the 1920s-1930s‚ but only wrote five mystery novels. Most of his works involved his anonymous detective The Continental Op‚ an employee of one of the big national detective agencies. Sam Spade became popular because of the movies‚ but didn’t feature in much of this author’s work. Hammett’s greatest skill was his combination of terse presentation‚ witty dialogue‚ and a plain style
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shown fleeing a rapacious and predatory male. However‚ at times she is made to feel sympathy for the monster which pursues her. Typical examples include: Mina in Dracula‚ Elizabeth in Frankenstein‚ Ophelia in Hamlet‚ Fay Wray in King Kong The femme fatale The other typical gothic female is sharply contrasting female predator. Dark haired‚ red lipped‚ wearing a tight black dress and with a startling cleavage – parodied by Morticia in the Addams family. A dangerous and rapacious creature‚ offering
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now is writer Danielle Steele who owns over hundreds of thousands of pairs. Sarah Jessica Parker wore Louboutins on her wedding day as well as Cate Blanchett‚ Blake Lively and Kim Catrall have all fallen prey to the state of art luxury of owning the femme fatale’s accessory . THE STORY BEHIND THE TRADEMARK RED SOLES: It is said that once Louboutin was drawing a shoe design and he was unsatisfied with each and every one of them; then‚ he saw his assistant polishing her nails red and from there came
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the Muslim view‚ raw instincts are pure energy without connotations with the good or bad. Nevertheless‚ sexual instincts have the power to cause fitna‚ which is an Islamic term meaning disorder and chaos‚ and which also refers to the beautiful femme fatale (beautiful women) who makes men loose their self-control. The regulation of these instincts is necessary for the sake of social order (Mernissi‚ 27-31). There are two kinds of societies that regulate sexual instincts: the Western‚
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