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Book Description: The tale of the serial wife murderer Bluebeard, his defiant, and surviving, final wife, a bloodied key and a secret chamber of horrors, has fascinated writers, composers, artists and film makers throughout modern times. It is a unique story that dares to disclose and explore masculine violence: the homme fatal.This transdisciplinary book explores the deep appeal of the Bluebeard story for twentieth century culture. Its major focus is how the modernist imagination used the elements of Bluebeard s tale to explore masculinity s anxieties in the face of the emerging demands of women for redefinition and sexual equality: anxieties also of ethnic and cultural difference, and fundamental disquiet about sexuality, pathology and violence in the masculine.Starting with investigations into Bart k s opera 'Duke Bluebeard s Castle', major cultural thinkers, including Elisabeth Bronfen, Ian Christie, Griselda Pollock and Maria Tatar, trace Bluebeard s evolution from Perrault in the seventeenth century to the cinematic hommes fatals of M li s, Fritz Lang and Hitchcock. The result is an intriguing kaleidoscope of sexuality, curiosity, violence and death.

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