Salomes Modernity
Download Salomes Modernity full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Salomes Modernity ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads.
Author |
: Petra Dierkes-Thrun |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2014-07-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472036042 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0472036041 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Salome's Modernity by : Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salom has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression is the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism and Salom as a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde's Salom marks a major turning point from a dominant traditional cultural, moral, and religious outlook to a utopian aesthetic of erotic and artistic transgression. Wilde and Salom are seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarm , Pater, and Nietzsche to modernist and postmodernist literature and philosophy and our contemporary culture. Dierkes-Thrun addresses subsequent representations of Salome in a wide range of artistic productions of both high and popular culture through the works of Richard Strauss, Maud Allan, Alla Nazimova, Ken Russell, Suri Krishnamma, Robert Altman, Tom Robbins, and Nick Cave, among others.
Author |
: Biddy Martin |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2018-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501732515 |
ISBN-13 |
: 150173251X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Woman and Modernity by : Biddy Martin
Woman and Modernity provides what previous studies of Salomé have in large part neglected to offer—a sustained investigation of the literariness of Salomé's texts and of Salomé as a significant reader of modernity. Focusing on key encounters in Salomé's writings, such as her exchanges with Nietzsche, Ibsen, Rilke, Freud, and late nineteenth-century middle-class German feminists such as Dohm and Stucker, Martin approaches Salomé's life and work as a series of strategic negotiations concerning the place of women and the meaning of femininity.
Author |
: Rhonda K. Garelick |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2009-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691141091 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691141096 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Electric Salome by : Rhonda K. Garelick
Loie Fuller was the most famous American in Europe throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, she attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, impresario, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. Fuller befriended royalty and inspired artists such as Mallarmé, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Sarah Bernhardt, and Isadora Duncan. Today, though, she is remembered mainly as an untutored "pioneer" of modern dance and stage technology, the "electricity fairy" who created a sensation onstage whirling under colored spotlights. But in Rhonda Garelick's Electric Salome, Fuller finally receives her due as a major artist whose work helped lay a foundation for all modernist performance to come. The book demonstrates that Fuller was not a mere entertainer or precursor, but an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Electric Salome places Fuller in the context of classical and modern ballet, Art Nouveau, Orientalism, surrealism, the birth of cinema, American modern dance, and European drama. It offers detailed close readings of texts and performances, situated within broader historical, cultural, and theoretical frameworks. Accessibly written, the book also recounts the human story of how an obscure, uneducated woman from the dustbowl of the American Midwest moved to Paris, became a star, and lived openly for decades as a lesbian.
Author |
: Jodie Medd |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2012-09-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139560924 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139560921 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism by : Jodie Medd
Before lesbianism became a specific identity category in the West, its mere suggestion functioned as a powerful source of scandal in early twentieth-century British and Anglo-American culture. Reconsidering notions of the 'invisible' or 'apparitional' lesbian, Jodie Medd argues that lesbianism's representational instability, and the scandals it generated, rendered it an influential force within modern politics, law, art and the literature of modernist writers like James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Virginia Woolf. Medd's analysis draws on legal proceedings and parliamentary debates as well as crises within modern literary production - patronage relations, literary obscenity and cultural authority - to reveal how lesbian suggestion forced modern political, cultural and literary institutions to negotiate their own identities, ideals and limits. Medd's text will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students in gender and women's studies, modernist literary studies and English literature.
Author |
: Cecily Devereux |
Publisher |
: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2023-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781771125888 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1771125888 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance by : Cecily Devereux
Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance situates the 1908 dance craze, which The New York Times called “Salomania,” as a crucial event and a turning point in the history of the modern business of erotic dance. Framing Salomania with reference to imperial ideologies of motherhood and race, it works toward better understanding the increasing value of the display of the undressed female body in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This study turns critical attention to cultures of maternity in the late 19th century, primarily with reference to the ways in which women are defined in relation to their genitals as patriarchal property and space and are valued according to reproduction as their primary labour. Erotic dance as it takes shape in the modern representation of Salome insists both that the mother is and is not visible in the body of the dancer, a contradiction this study characterizes as reproductive fetishism. Looking at a range of media, the study traces the modern figure of Salome through visual art, writing, early psychoanalysis and dance, from "hootchie kootch" to the performances dancer Maud Allan called “mimeo-dramatic” to mid-20th-century North American films such as Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard and Charles Lamont's Salome, Where She Danced to the 21st-century HBO series The Sopranos.
Author |
: Kate Hext |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2024-03-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198875383 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019887538X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wilde in the Dream Factory by : Kate Hext
Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. This is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema become the movies, it reveals how Wilde helped to shape Hollywood in the early twentieth century. It begins with his 1882 American tour, and traces the ongoing popularity of his plays and novel in the early twentieth century, after his ignominious death. Following the early filmmakers, writers and actors as they headed West in the Hollywood boom, it uncovers how and why they took Wilde's spirit with them. There, in Hollywood, in the early days of silent cinema, Wilde's works were adapted. They were also beginning to define a new kind of style -- a 'Wilde-ish spirit', as Ernst Lubitsch called it -- filtering into the imaginations of Lubitsch himself, as well as Alla Nazimova, Ben Hecht, Samuel Hoffenstein and many others. These were the people who translated Wilde's queer playfulness into the creation of screwball comedies, gangster movies, B-movie horrors, and films noir. There, Wilde and his style embodied a spirit of rebellion and naughtiness, providing a blue-print for the charismatic cinematic criminal and screwball talk onscreen. Discussing films including Bringing Up Baby, Underworld, and Laura, alongside definitive adaptations of Wilde's works, including, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lady Windermere's Fan, and Salome, Wilde in the Dream Factory revises how we understand both Wilde's afterlife and cinema's beginnings.
Author |
: Kate Hext |
Publisher |
: Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2019-07-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421429427 |
ISBN-13 |
: 142142942X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decadence in the Age of Modernism by : Kate Hext
Contributors: Howard J. Booth, Joseph Bristow, Ellen Crowell, Nick Freeman, Ellis Hanson, Kate Hext, Kirsten MacLeod, Kristin Mahoney, Douglas Mao, Michèle Mendelssohn, Alex Murray, Sarah Parker, Vincent Sherry
Author |
: David Nicholls |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0472110349 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472110346 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Conjuring the Folk by : David Nicholls
Provides a new way of looking at literary responses to migration and modernization
Author |
: Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 2020-03-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781478007074 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1478007079 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Process Genre by : Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky
From IKEA assembly guides and “hands and pans” cooking videos on social media to Mister Rogers's classic factory tours, representations of the step-by-step fabrication of objects and food are ubiquitous in popular media. In The Process Genre Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky introduces and theorizes the process genre—a heretofore unacknowledged and untheorized transmedial genre characterized by its representation of chronologically ordered steps in which some form of labor results in a finished product. Originating in the fifteenth century with machine drawings, and now including everything from cookbooks to instructional videos and art cinema, the process genre achieves its most powerful affective and ideological results in film. By visualizing technique and absorbing viewers into the actions of social actors and machines, industrial, educational, ethnographic, and other process films stake out diverse ideological positions on the meaning of labor and on a society's level of technological development. In systematically theorizing a genre familiar to anyone with access to a screen, Skvirsky opens up new possibilities for film theory.
Author |
: Alan Robert Ginsberg |
Publisher |
: Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages |
: 394 |
Release |
: 2016-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780815653653 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0815653654 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Salome Ensemble by : Alan Robert Ginsberg
The Salome Ensemble probes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Together they created the shape-shifting, genre-crossing Salome of the Tenements, first a popular novel and then a Hollywood movie. The title character was a combination Cinderella and Salome like the women who conceived her. Rose Pastor Stokes was the role model. Anzia Yezierska wrote the novel. Sonya Levien wrote the screenplay. Jetta Goudal played her on the silver screen. Ginsberg considers the women individually and collectively, exploring how they shaped and reflected their cultural landscape. These European Jewish immigrants pursued their own versions of the American dream, escaped the squalor of sweatshops, knew romance and heartache, and achieved prominence in politics, fashion, journalism, literature, and film.