Books by S. Simkin

This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years.

The figure of the beautiful but lethal woman has haunted the Western imagination from ancient myth to contemporary film. Looking at news media, cinema, drama and other cultural forms, this study considers the interaction between representations of 'real life' 'femmes fatales' and their fictional counterparts.

This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years.