Bluebeard's Legacy: Death and Secrets from Bartok to Hitchcock

by Mieke Bal and Victoria Anderson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184511633X
• ISBN13: 9781845116330
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"