Routledge Focus on Feminism and Film

The Nasty Woman and The Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema

1st Edition

By Agnieszka Piotrowska
February 25, 2020

The Nasty Woman and the Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema puts forward the theoretical notion of the ‘nasty woman’ as a means of examining female protagonists in contemporary culture and cinema, particularly films directed by women. The phrase is taken from an insult thrown at Hillary Clinton...