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Bluebeard´s Legacy: Death and Secrets from Bartók to Hitchcock
Griselda(Ed Pollock
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Description for Bluebeard´s Legacy: Death and Secrets from Bartók to Hitchcock
Paperback. Explores the deep appeal of the Bluebeard story for twentieth-century culture. This book focuses how the modernist imagination used the elements of Bluebeard's tale to explore masculinity's anxieties in the face of the emerging demands of women for redefinition and sexual equality. Editor(s): Pollock, Griselda; Anderson, Victoria. Num Pages: 288 pages, 36 integrated black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 624.
The tale of the serial wife-murderer Bluebeard, his defiant, and surviving, final wife, a bloodied key and a secret chamber of horrors, has fascinated writers, composers, artists and film-makers throughout modern times. It is a unique story that dares to disclose and explore masculine violence: the homme fatal. This transdisciplinary book explores the deep appeal of the Bluebeard story for twentieth-century culture. Its major focus is how the modernist imagination used the elements of Bluebearda??s tale to explore masculinitya??s anxieties in the face of the emerging demands of women for redefinition and sexual equality: anxieties also of ethnic and cultural ... Read more
The tale of the serial wife-murderer Bluebeard, his defiant, and surviving, final wife, a bloodied key and a secret chamber of horrors, has fascinated writers, composers, artists and film-makers throughout modern times. It is a unique story that dares to disclose and explore masculine violence: the homme fatal. This transdisciplinary book explores the deep appeal of the Bluebeard story for twentieth-century culture. Its major focus is how the modernist imagination used the elements of Bluebearda??s tale to explore masculinitya??s anxieties in the face of the emerging demands of women for redefinition and sexual equality: anxieties also of ethnic and cultural ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845116330
SKU
V9781845116330
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About Griselda(Ed Pollock
Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds. Her numerous books include 'Vision and Difference', 'Differencing the Canon', 'Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum' and 'Theatre of Memory' . Victoria Anderson is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University ... Read more
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