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Lustmord : sexual murder in Weimar Germany /

In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tatar, Maria, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1997.
Edición:First paperback printing.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Morbid curiosity: why Lustmord?
  • "Ask mother": the construction of sexual murder
  • Crime, contagion, and containment: sexual murder in the Weimar republic
  • Fighting for life: figurations of war, women, and the city in the work Otto Dix
  • Life in the combat zone: military and sexual anxieties in the work of George Grosz
  • The Corpse vanishes: gender, violence, and agency in Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz
  • The killer as victim: Fritz Lang's M
  • Reinventions: murder in the name of art.