Aestheticism, Evil, Homosexuality, and Hannibal - If Oscar Wilde Ate People

This book investigates the bittersweet legacy of the art-for-art's sake movement in today's popular culture and the modern landscape where questions of beauty are seen as secondary to those of social justice by examining Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, among other works of popular culture.

List of contents

Introduction
The Beauty in Evil
The Evil in Beauty
Conclusion

About the author

Geoff Klock is associate professor in the English Department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College at the City University of New York.

Summary

This book investigates the bittersweet legacy of the art-for-art’s sake movement in today's popular culture and the modern landscape where questions of beauty are seen as secondary to those of social justice by examining Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, among other works of popular culture.

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Klock, Klock Geoff
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781498548489
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4848-9
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, ART / Digital, Electronic, holographic & video art, Digital, video and new media arts