Images of the Corpse - From the Renaissance to Cyberspace

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Klaver is associate professor of English at Southern Illinois University and author of Performing Television: Contemporary Drama and the Media Culture . Klappentext This compelling book brings together physicians! artists! and scholars of film! literature! philosophy! art! and politics to discuss the representation of the corpse in Western culture. Spanning a timeline from the Renaissance to the present! these essays introduce readers to a modern autopsy! a public execution and dissection in seventeenth-century England! the genre of postmortem photography! the corpse as artist's model! images of dead women in such popular films as "Copycat" and "The Silence of the Lambs!" and post-mortem scenes in the works of Flaubert! Balzac! Andres Serrano! and others. Zusammenfassung Images of the Corpse: From Renaissance to Cyberspace is a collection of 11 essays! which explores and questions the value of interpreting the body as a cultural artifact. This book spans through a great range of time frames with contributions from various essayists.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Elizabeth Klaver, Elizabeth (EDT) Klaver, University of Wisconsin Press
• Mitarbeit: Elizabeth Klaver (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.08.2004
• EAN: 9780299197940
• ISBN: 978-0-299-19794-0
• Seiten: 280
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Serien: Ray and Pat Browne Books (Pape; Ray and Pat Browne Books (Pape; Ray and Pat Browne Book
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Antiquitäten; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika