Fatal attraction, or the post‐modern Prometheus

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This paper examines the issue of representation of women in advertising and in one very popular film from 1987, Fatal Attraction, drawing attention to the dangers, implicit in certain feminist approaches to media, of reinforcing the culturally privileged distinction between “good girls” and “bad girls.” It draws a parallel between the Glenn Close character in Fatal Attraction and the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in order to illustrate the persistence, and the consequences to women, of this patriarchal division of their ranks.

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