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Whimsical Pornography: Albert Dubout's Illustrations For Sade's Justine, Olivier M. Delers Jan 2016

Whimsical Pornography: Albert Dubout's Illustrations For Sade's Justine, Olivier M. Delers

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

In Dangereux supplement: I 'illustration du roman en France au dixhuitieme siecle, Christophe Martin explains that images were generally considered to be dangerous additions to a text, because they could not be limited to their intended primary purpose: to provide a visual translation for characters and events depicted in works of fiction.1 For even as they illustrate, images also offer a reading that necessarily shapes the reader's perception of a novel. In the process, the images themselves become texts with their own complex system of signification. As such "supplements" go, illustrations of Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade's novels …


'Si Ridesti [Il Leon Di Castiglia] La Fiamma Sopita': Ricordi's Censored Libretto Of Ernani And Some Vicissitudes Of The Conspiracy Scene, David B. Rosen Jan 2007

'Si Ridesti [Il Leon Di Castiglia] La Fiamma Sopita': Ricordi's Censored Libretto Of Ernani And Some Vicissitudes Of The Conspiracy Scene, David B. Rosen

Verdi Forum

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Dangerous Bodies: The Regulation And Contestation Of Women's Sexuality At The Movies In Virginia, Melissa Ooten Jan 2006

Dangerous Bodies: The Regulation And Contestation Of Women's Sexuality At The Movies In Virginia, Melissa Ooten

Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Faculty Publications

In 1922, the General Assembly of Virginia created a motion-picture censorship board to regulate out of popular culture images its cultural arbiters ruled detrimental to state officials' attempts to modernize and "clean up" the image of Virginia. On-screen depictions of women's sexuality repeatedly fell prey to the board's "protectionist" ideology, by which censors argued that their work "protected" society's most vulnerable citizens. In reality, such an ideology served as an extension of state power to keep subjective, realistic portrayals of these already marginalized citizens out of popular culture in order to justify their continued status as "second-class" citizens within the …


A Tale Of Five Cities: The Peregrinations Of Somma's And Verdi's Gustavo Iii (And Una Vendetta In Dominò And Un Ballo In Maschera) At The Hands Of The Neapolitan And Roman Censorship, David Rosen Jan 2000

A Tale Of Five Cities: The Peregrinations Of Somma's And Verdi's Gustavo Iii (And Una Vendetta In Dominò And Un Ballo In Maschera) At The Hands Of The Neapolitan And Roman Censorship, David Rosen

Verdi Forum

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The Censorship Of 'I Masnadieri' In London, Roberta Montemorra Marvin Jan 1998

The Censorship Of 'I Masnadieri' In London, Roberta Montemorra Marvin

Verdi Forum

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Censorship In Verdi's 'Attila': Two Case Studies, Linda B. Fairtile Jan 1997

Censorship In Verdi's 'Attila': Two Case Studies, Linda B. Fairtile

Verdi Forum

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Censorship Of 'I Masnadieri' In Italy, Roberta Montemorra Marvin Jan 1993

Censorship Of 'I Masnadieri' In Italy, Roberta Montemorra Marvin

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.