The fate of Carmen / Evlyn Gould.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gould, Evlyn.

Series:

Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)

Parallax

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870. Carmen.

Mérimée, Prosper.

Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Carmen.

Bizet, Georges.

Carmen (Motion picture : 1983 : Saura).

Carmen (Fictitious character).

Performing arts--History--20th century.

Performing arts.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 222 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Summary:

The ongoing proliferation of new versions of Carmen presents an ideal opportunity to study both the cultural power and renewability of certain literary texts and the relationship between literature and the performing arts. Since its introduction in Prosper Merimee's 1845 novella, the Carmen character has been the subject of countless portrayals -- from Bizet's 1874 opera, to various dramatic, dance, and musical renditions, to films by such directors as Peter Brook, Jean-Luc Godard, Francesco Rosi, and Carlos Saura. In The Fate of Carmen, Evlyn Gould studies competing representations of Carmen as either dangerous femme fatale, liberated woman, or vanguard warrior in the battle between the sexes. Gould locates the impetus for the continual renewal of this modern myth in the cultural ideal of Bohemia, tracing the history of this ideal from nineteenth-century Paris to the European Union of today.

Contents:

Introduction: Reading Carmen 1

1 The Imaginary Scenarios of Bohemia 18

2 Carmen Novella 60

3 Carmen Opera-comique 89

4 Carmen Choreofilm 152.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index.

ISBN:

0801853664

0801853672

OCLC:

34320340