- Summary
- In a book that confronts our society's obsession with 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 media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place - both artistically and socially - in the construction and circulation of scenes depicting sexual murder. In examining images of sexual murder (Lustmord), she produces a riveting study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Tatar, Maria, 1945-
- Published
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995]
©1995
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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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.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-208) and index.
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.
