Bluebeard's legacy : death and secrets from Bartok to Hitchcock /
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...
| Други автори: | Pollock, Griselda., Anderson, Victoria |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York : New York :
I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the United States and Canada Exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Серия: |
New encounters (London, England)
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=288996 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Bluebeard's legacy. |
| Резюме: |
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 redef. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xxx, 258 pages) : illustrations. |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781441629111 1441629114 9780857710963 0857710966 |