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Author:   Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK) ,  Victoria Anderson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9781845116330

ISBN 10:   184511633
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 March 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Griselda Pollock Introduction: A Perrault in Wolf's Clothing Victoria Anderson 1. Bluebeard's Curse: Repetition and Improvisational Energy in the Bluebeard Tale Maria Tatar 2. Bluebeard, Hero of Modernity: Tales at the fin de siecle Mererid Puw Davies 3. 'Bela Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle: A Musicological Perspective David Cooper 4. The Tale of the Eye: Revealing the Jew in Duke Bluebeard's Castle Victoria Anderson 5. Hidden Debates Under a Baroque Surface: Barbe-bleue by Georges Melies (1901) Michael Hiltbrunner 6. Hommes Fatales: Murder, Pathology and Hollywood Cinema's Bluebeards Griselda Pollock 7. The Enigma of Homecoming: The Secret Beyond the Door Elisabeth Bronfen 8. Dying for Art: Michael Powell, Duke Bluebeard's Castle and the filmic art-work of the future Ian Christie Authors' Biographies Bibliography Index

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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'.

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