Ululu

"Operatic in scope, ULULU (Clown Shrapnel) is a dramatic, genre-bending narrative and a lyrical cultural biography of the archetypal seductress Lulu. In a furious performance of text and imagery, Thalia Field introduces us to the stock characters of the commedia, the famous plays, operas, and silent films in which Lulu appeared, the artists who brought her to life, and the censorship and controversy that she engendered. The myth of "Lulu" began during the height of late-nineteenth-century Viennese culture with a sequence of two plays by Frank Wedekind (Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box), and continued through the two world wars with Lulu, an unfinished opera by Alban Berg, and Pandora's Box, a highly acclaimed film by G.W. Pabst, starring Louise Brooks. Throughout all of Lulu's incarnations she met with censure-Wedekind's plays were banned from the stage, Berg's opera, which contained a secret score for his young lover, was kept from the public by his widow, and Pabst's erotic film was too risqu for many."--pub. desc.

Year

2007

Language

English

Publisher

Coffee House Press

Editions

1

Pages

252

ISBN

9781566891967

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