The Body Dangerous: Salome Dances

Richard Strauss’s operatic adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salome breaks all the rules in the representation of the female body: this body is not only stared at by the ‘male gaze’ but stares back, with powerful and deadly results. This Salome offers a challenge to canonical theories of both ‘the gaz...

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Main Authors: Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2003-01-01
Series:Revista Estudos Feministas
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/9474
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description Richard Strauss’s operatic adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salome breaks all the rules in the representation of the female body: this body is not only stared at by the ‘male gaze’ but stares back, with powerful and deadly results. This Salome offers a challenge to canonical theories of both ‘the gaze’ and feminine objectification.
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