Femme Fatale:

A Femme Fatale is woman who are considered to be dangerously seductive.The rising fame of the femme fatale took place during the second World War and in film noir's of the 1940s.The femme fatale represents the most direct attack on traditional womanhood and the nuclear family as the femme fatale refuses to play the typical role of the devoted wife and loving mother.She finds marriage to be dull,loveless and sexless,as she uses all of her cunning and sexual attractiveness to gain her independence and this gives the rising power of seduction played by the femme fatal. The Convention of film noir is used to signify the femme fatales mysterious character in a film. Three examples of the femme fatale are shown below from the 1940s:


Rita Hayworth

Linda Darnell

Ava Gardner