Waxworks

Author : Pamela Pilbeam
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852855116
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Tussaud written by Pamela Pilbeam and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Michelle E. Bloom
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816639311
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waxworks written by Michelle E. Bloom and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Frieda Hughes
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060012692
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waxworks written by Frieda Hughes and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Bill Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joe Smith & His Waxworks written by Bill Smith and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lotte H. Eisner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520257900
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haunted Screen written by Lotte H. Eisner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.'

Author : Julia Simpson-Urrutia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998177519
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wax Works written by Julia Simpson-Urrutia and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murder of Mlle Schwartz, a teacher at Château Mont Rose, destroys the reputation of the oldest finishing school for girls in Switzerland. It goes out of business. For eight years, the estate remains locked and boarded up until re-opening as an inn and wax museum. Former students receive notification. They visit. Then they disappear. When the number of missing women grows, Interpol alerts Detective Cloquet of Lausanne Sûreté. Cloquet pressures his young deputy, Paul Junod, to shadow expected arrivals Lauren Briant and Rachel Gordon, both alumni at the boarding school. In order to stay close to Lauren and Rachel, Paul has to join their paranormal film team. Meanwhile, Cloquet revisits Château Mont Rose to seek out its headmistress, a woman long dead.

Author : Lizzie Seal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136250727
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain written by Lizzie Seal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capital punishment for murder was abolished in Britain in 1965. At this time, the way people in Britain perceived and understood the death penalty had changed – it was an issue that had become increasingly controversial, high-profile and fraught with emotion. In order to understand why this was, it is necessary to examine how ordinary people learned about and experienced capital punishment. Drawing on primary research, this book explores the cultural life of the death penalty in Britain in the twentieth century, including an exploration of the role of the popular press and a discussion of portrayals of the death penalty in plays, novels and films. Popular protest against capital punishment and public responses to and understandings of capital cases are also discussed, particularly in relation to conceptualisations of justice. Miscarriages of justice were significant to capital punishment’s increasingly fraught nature in the mid twentieth-century and the book analyses the unsettling power of two such high profile miscarriages of justice. The final chapters consider the continuing relevance of capital punishment in Britain after abolition, including its symbolism and how people negotiate memories of the death penalty. Capital Punishment in Twentieth-Century Britain is groundbreaking in its attention to the death penalty and the effect it had on everyday life and it is the only text on this era to place public and popular discourses about, and reactions to, capital punishment at the centre of the analysis. Interdisciplinary in focus and methodology, it will appeal to historians, criminologists, sociologists and socio-legal scholars.

Author : David Nash
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350050962
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fair and Unfair Trials in the British Isles, 1800-1940 written by David Nash and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting a microhistory approach, Fair and Unfair Trials in the British Isles, 1800-1940 provides an in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern justice system. Drawing upon criminal cases and trials from England, Scotland, and Ireland, the book examines the errors, procedural systems, and the ways in which adverse influences of social and cultural forces impacted upon individual instances of justice. The book investigates several case studies of both justice and injustice which prompted the development of forensic toxicology, the implementation of state propaganda and an increased interest in press sensationalism. One such case study considers the trial of William Sheen, who was prosecuted and later acquitted of the murder of his infant child at the Old Baily in 1827, an extraordinary miscarriage of justice that prompted outrage amongst the general public. Other case studies include trials for treason, theft, obscenity and blasphemy. Nash and Kilday root each of these cases within their relevant historical, cultural, and political contexts, highlighting changing attitudes to popular culture, public criticism, protest and activism as significant factors in the transformation of the criminal trial and the British judicial system as a whole. Drawing upon a wealth of primary sources, including legal records, newspaper articles and photographs, this book provides a unique insight into the evolution of modern criminal justice in Britain.

Author : Frieda Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waxworks written by Frieda Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wicked and witty, this third collection of poetry from internationally acclaimed Frieda Hughes will secure her reputation as a poet with a vital talent. Frieda Hughes was born in London in 1960. She has spent some of her time living and working in Australia. Since studying art, she has exhibited her work in Britain, the U.S and Australia. A talented writer as well as an artist, she has received international acclaim for writing and painting. She has published seven children's books, the most recent being Three Scary Storiesand has two collections of Poetry, Woorolooand Stonepickerboth published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Both collections have also been published in the UK and US.

Author : McQuaig
Publisher : South Western Educational Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780395868058
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wax Works written by McQuaig and published by South Western Educational Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wax Works is a realistic exercise in which the student/bookkeeper is hired by a sole proprietorship retail candle shop. The bookkeeper must organize a disordered set of source documents representing one month's financial activity, bring order to the company's books, and complete all year-end accounting tasks, including formulating and recording adjusting and closing entries and preparing financial statements. It can be used after Chapter 13 of McQuaig/Bille, College Accounting, 8/e.