Your first ideas

Women and Film

Women as villains. This is a good idea. I think you could begin by reviewing stuff on the “femme fatales” of film noir, and then look at more modern “bad women” films such as Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, etc. I have a few ideas about these myself. I think the first thing to do is decide on three modern films with villainous women in them, and to take it from there.

I have no essays by students about this issue, but think I have one by me somewhere (mainly about film noir).

For your primary research you could interview women audience members about their feelings about these “dangerous women”, and whether they allow a sort of pleasurable idenitification with transgressive behaviour which is not normally allowed.

Sean