Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds. Her numerous books include 'Vision and Difference', 'Differencing the Canon', 'Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum' and 'Theatre of Memory' . Victoria Anderson is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of 'Outfoxed: the Secret Life of a Fairy Tale'.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPreface Griselda Pollock Introduction: A Perrault in Wolf’s ClothingVictoria Anderson1. Bluebeard’s Curse: Repetition and Improvisational Energy in the Bluebeard TaleMaria Tatar2. Bluebeard, Hero of Modernity: Tales at the fin de siècleMererid Puw Davies3. ‘Béla Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle: A Musicological PerspectiveDavid Cooper4. The Tale of the Eye: Revealing the Jew in Duke Bluebeard’s CastleVictoria Anderson5. Hidden Debates Under a Baroque Surface: Barbe-bleue by Georges Méliès (1901) Michael Hiltbrunner6. Hommes Fatales: Murder, Pathology and Hollywood Cinema’s Bluebeards Griselda Pollock7. The Enigma of Homecoming: The Secret Beyond the DoorElisabeth Bronfen8. Dying for Art: Michael Powell, Duke Bluebeard's Castle and the filmic art-work of the futureIan ChristieAuthors’ BiographiesBibliography Index

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Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds. Her numerous books include 'Vision and Difference', 'Differencing the Canon', 'Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum' and 'Theatre of Memory' . Victoria Anderson is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of 'Outfoxed: the Secret Life of a Fairy Tale'.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPreface Griselda Pollock Introduction: A Perrault in Wolf’s ClothingVictoria Anderson1. Bluebeard’s Curse: Repetition and Improvisational Energy in the Bluebeard TaleMaria Tatar2. Bluebeard, Hero of Modernity: Tales at the fin de siècleMererid Puw Davies3. ‘Béla Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle: A Musicological PerspectiveDavid Cooper4. The Tale of the Eye: Revealing the Jew in Duke Bluebeard’s CastleVictoria Anderson5. Hidden Debates Under a Baroque Surface: Barbe-bleue by Georges Méliès (1901) Michael Hiltbrunner6. Hommes Fatales: Murder, Pathology and Hollywood Cinema’s Bluebeards Griselda Pollock7. The Enigma of Homecoming: The Secret Beyond the DoorElisabeth Bronfen8. Dying for Art: Michael Powell, Duke Bluebeard's Castle and the filmic art-work of the futureIan ChristieAuthors’ BiographiesBibliography Index

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Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds. Her numerous books include 'Vision and Difference', 'Differencing the Canon', 'Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum' and 'Theatre of Memory' . Victoria Anderson is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of 'Outfoxed: the Secret Life of a Fairy Tale'.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPreface Griselda Pollock Introduction: A Perrault in Wolf’s ClothingVictoria Anderson1. Bluebeard’s Curse: Repetition and Improvisational Energy in the Bluebeard TaleMaria Tatar2. Bluebeard, Hero of Modernity: Tales at the fin de siècleMererid Puw Davies3. ‘Béla Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle: A Musicological PerspectiveDavid Cooper4. The Tale of the Eye: Revealing the Jew in Duke Bluebeard’s CastleVictoria Anderson5. Hidden Debates Under a Baroque Surface: Barbe-bleue by Georges Méliès (1901) Michael Hiltbrunner6. Hommes Fatales: Murder, Pathology and Hollywood Cinema’s Bluebeards Griselda Pollock7. The Enigma of Homecoming: The Secret Beyond the DoorElisabeth Bronfen8. Dying for Art: Michael Powell, Duke Bluebeard's Castle and the filmic art-work of the futureIan ChristieAuthors’ BiographiesBibliography Index

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