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Waxworks
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Author : Michelle E. Bloom
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2003
Waxworks written by Michelle E. Bloom and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Art categories.
London, 1921. The world's greatest wax sculptor watches in horror as flames consume his museum and melt his uncannily lifelike creations. Twelve years later, he opens a wax museum in New York. Crippled, disfigured, and driven mad by the fire, he resorts to body snatching and murder to populate his displays, preserving the bodies in wax. "In a thousand years you will be as lovely as you are now, " he assures one victim. In The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), director Michael Curtiz perfectly captures the macabre essence of realistic wax figures that have excited the darker aspects of the public's imagination ever since Madame Tussaud established her famous museum in London in 1802. Artists, too, have been fascinated by wax sculptures, seeing in them--and in the unique properties of wax itself--an eerie metaphoric power with which to address sexual anxiety, fears of mortality, and other morbid subjects. In Waxworks, Michelle E. Bloom explores the motif of the wax figure in European and American literature and art. In particular, she connects the myth of Pygmalion to the obsession with wax statues of women in the nineteenth-century fetishization of prostitutes and female corpses and as depicted in such "wax fictions" as Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (1841). Filmmakers, too, have sought inspiration from wax museums, and Bloom analyzes works from the silent era to such waxwork-themed Hollywood horror films as Mad Love (1935) and House of Wax (1953). Bringing her discussion to the present, Bloom examines the work of contemporary artists who use the medium of wax in ways never imagined by Madame Tussaud. As extravagant new wax museums open in Las Vegas, Times Square, and Paris, Waxworksoffers a provocative cultural history of this enduring--and disturbing--art form.
Waxworks
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Author : Frieda Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Waxworks written by Frieda Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Poetry categories.
New terrain is marked in Frieda Hughes's brilliant new collection, Waxworks. In it, Hughes has conceived and created a kind of poetic wax museum. She peoples it with figures from myth and legend, the Bible and world history, the famous and the infamous. Diverse personalities, such as Rasputin and Cinderella, Medea and Lazarus, Houdini and Lady Macbeth, have been reborn of their old selves in Waxworks. Hughes imbues them with new life in contemporary terms; they experience the universal truths of love and pain and vanity that affect us all. As this volume proves, Hughes never flinches from difficult subjects and experiences. Like Wooroloo, Frieda Hughes's debut collection, the poems of Waxworks will haunt a reader's imagination.
Madame Tussaud
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Author : Pamela Pilbeam
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-08-10
Madame Tussaud written by Pamela Pilbeam and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Tussaud's catered for the public's fascination with monarchy, whether Henry VIII and his wives or Queen Victoria, as well as for their love of history, acting as an accessible and enjoyable museum. This work looks at Madame Tussaud herself and her exhibition as part of the wider history of wax modelling and of popular entertainment.
Das Wachsfigurenkabinett 1924
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language : ar
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Das Wachsfigurenkabinett 1924 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Joe Smith His Waxworks
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Author : Bill Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Joe Smith His Waxworks written by Bill Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.
Welcome To The Waxworks
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Author : Sam Godwin
language : en
Publisher: Wayland
Release Date : 2001
Welcome To The Waxworks written by Sam Godwin and has been published by Wayland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Children's stories categories.
There's something strange happening at the Waxworks exhibition in the local theme park. Becky is haunted by the whisperings of the waxworks and notices that the figures in the Great Plague scene have moved and are now picking on a boy carrying a precious posy of flowers to prevent him from catching the plague. Disturbed by the image of the crying boy, Becky decides to return to the waxworks alone and at night. In the climax of the story Becky finds herself being buried alive in a mass grave with the boy from the plague scene. Will she ever escape from the grave...
The Corpse In The Waxworks
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Author : John Dickson Carr
language : en
Publisher: British Library Crime Classics
Release Date : 2021
The Corpse In The Waxworks written by John Dickson Carr and has been published by British Library Crime Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Fiction categories.
"The purpose, the illusion, the spirit of a waxworks. It is an atmosphere of death. It is soundless and motionless... Do you see?" Last night Mademoiselle Duchêne was seen heading into the Gallery of Horrors at the Musée Augustin waxworks, alive. Today she was found in the Seine, murdered. The museum's proprietor, long perturbed by the unnatural vitality of his figures, claims that he saw one of them following the victim into the dark--a lead that Henri Bencolin, head of the Paris police and expert of 'impossible' crimes, cannot possibly resist. Surrounded by the eerie noises of the night, Bencolin prepares to enter the ill-fated waxworks, his associate Jeff Marle and the victim's fiancé in tow. Waiting within, beneath the glass-eyed gaze of a leering waxen satyr, is a gruesome discovery and the first clues of a twisted and ingenious mystery. First published in 1932 at the height of crime fiction's Golden Age, this macabre and atmospheric dive into the murky underground of Parisian society presents an intelligent puzzle delivered at a stunning pace. This new edition also includes the rare Inspector Bencolin short story "The Murder in Number Four" by John Dickson Carr, and an Introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger-Award winning author Martin Edwards.
The Waxworks Murder
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Author : John Dickson Carr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
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Mrs Jarley S Far Famed Collection Of Waxworks
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Author : George Bradford Bartlett
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2018-02-24
Mrs Jarley S Far Famed Collection Of Waxworks written by George Bradford Bartlett and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-24 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Haunted Screen
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Author : Lotte H. Eisner
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-09-29
The Haunted Screen written by Lotte H. Eisner and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-29 with Performing Arts categories.
The Golden Age of German cinema began at the end of the First World War and ended shortly after the coming of sound. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari onwards the principal films of this period were characterized by two influences: literary Expressionism, and the innovations of the theatre directors of this period, in particular Max Reinhardt. This book demonstrates the connection between German Romanticism and the cinema through Expressionist writings. It discusses the influence of the theatre: the handling of crowds; the use of different levels, and of selective lighting on a predominately dark stage; the reliance on formalized gesture; the innovation of the intimate theatre. Against this background the principal films of the period are examined in detail. The author explains the key critical concepts of the time, and surveys not only the work of the great directors, such as Fritz Lang and F. W. Murnau, but also the contribution of their writers, cameramen, and designers. As The Times Literary Supplement wrote, 'Mme. Eisner is first and foremost a film critic, and one of the best in the world. She has all the necessary gifts.' And it described the original French edition of this book as 'one of the very few classics of writing on the film and arguably the best book on the cinema yet written.'