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"This comprehensive analytical study of The Phantom of the Opera proposes answers to the question, "why do we keep needing this story told and retold in the Western world?" by revealing the history of deep cultural tensions that underlie the novel and each of its major adaptations.
Using extensive historical and textual evidence and drawing on perspectives from several theories of cultural studies, this book argues that the tale compels us because it provides us ways both to confront and to disguise how we have fashioned our senses of identity in the Western middle class. The Phantom of the Opera - in varying ways over time - turns out, like the "Gothic" tradition it extends, to be deeply connected to Western self-fashioning in the face of conflicted attitudes about class, gender, race, religious beliefs, Freudian psychology, economic and international tensions, and especially the shifting and permeable boundaries between "high" and "low" culture.
This book should interest all students of the history of Western culture, Gothic fiction, opera, musical theater, and film."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera: Sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux's Novel and its Progeny
May 3, 2002, Palgrave Macmillan
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0312293461 9780312293468
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