Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles In this interdisciplinary cultural history that encompasses film, literature, music, and drama, Inez Hedges follows the thread of the Faustian rebel in the major intellectual currents of the last hundred years. She presents Faust and his co
| TITLE | : | Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.52 (191 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 080932671X |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 262 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2006-01-12 |
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In this interdisciplinary cultural history that encompasses film, literature, music, and drama, Inez Hedges follows the thread of the Faustian rebel in the major intellectual currents of the last hundred years. She presents Faust and his counterpart Mephistopheles as antagonisticyet complementaryfigures whose productive conflict was integral to such phenomena as the birth of narrative cinema, the rise of modernist avant-gardes before World War II, and feminist critiques of Western cultural traditions.Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles pursues a dialectical approach to cultural history. Using the probing lens of cultural studies, Hedges shows how claims to the Faustian legacy permeated the struggle against Nazism in the 1930s while infusing not only the search for socialist utopias in Russia, France, and Germany, but also the quest for legitimacy on both sides of t
Editorial : About the AuthorInez Hedges is a professor of French, German, and cinema studies at Northeastern University, where she codirects the Program in Cinema Studies. She is the author of Languages of Revolt: Dada and Surrealist Literature and Film and Breaking the Frame: Film Language and the Experience of Limits and has published numerous scholarly essays and book chapters.
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