Research Catalog

Title

ULULU : clown shrapnel / by Thalia Field ; with silent film by Bill Morrison and illustrations by Abbot Stranahan.

Author

Field, Thalia, 1966-

Publication

Minneapolis, MN : Coffee House Press ; Saint Paul, MN : Available to the trade through Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Morrison, Bill
• Stranahan, Abbot.

Description

252 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Summary

• "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.

Subject

Experimental fiction

Genre/Form

• Experimental fiction
• Experimental fiction.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue : The clown particles -- Act One, Scene One : Monster collage -- Act One, Scene Two : The marriage mask -- Act One, Scene Three : Stage egats -- Act Two, Scene One : The bottom of the top -- Shambled Fate (A silent film) -- Act Two, Scene Two : Half revolution -- Interlude : Excuses -- Act Three, Scene One : A viable torso -- Act Three, Scene Two : Not why not.

ISBN

• 9781566891967 (alk. paper)
• 1566891965 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006038520

OCLC

76481526

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library