The effect of information society on the representation of femmes fatales in American visual culture

Zsófia Anna Tóth

Zsófia Anna Tóth is a research fellow at the Department of Library and Human Information Science, University of Szeged, Hungary. She received her PhD in British and American literature and culture from the University of Szeged. Her general research interests are film studies, cultural studies, gender studies, literary theory, American literature and American cinema. Her main research field is concerned with the representation of female aggression and violence in American literature and film. Her other two main fields of interest include Jane Austen and the New Woman. Her first book entitled Merry Murderers: The Farcical (Re)Figuration of the Femme Fatale in Maurine Dallas Watkins’ Chicago (1927) and its Various Adaptations was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (UK) in 2011, which was soon followed by her second one (which she edited) entitled A varázsgyűrűtől az interkonfesszionális kommunikációig: Információtudományi metszéspontok bölcsészeti megközelítésben (Primaware, Szeged, 2011). Email: tothzsofianna@gmail.com