Description
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 difference, and fundamental disquiet about sexuality, pathology and violence in the masculine. With chapters by Maria Tatar, Elisabeth Bronfen, Mererid Puw Davies, Ian Christie, David Cooper, Michael Hiltbrunner and the editors, the volume undertakes cultural, contextual and musicological analyses of Bartoka??s opera 'Duke Bluebearda??s Castle', tracing Bluebearda??s evolution from Perrault in the seventeenth century to the cinematic hommes fatals of Melies, Fritz Lang and Hitchcock. The result is an intriguing kaleidoscope of sexuality, curiosity, violence and death.
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.
About the Author
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 of London. She is the author of 'Outfoxed: the Secret Life of a Fairy Tale'.
Book Information
ISBN 9781845116330
Author Griselda Pollock
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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.
About the Author
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 of London. She is the author of 'Outfoxed: the Secret Life of a Fairy Tale'.
Book Information
ISBN 9781845116330
Author Griselda Pollock
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
