In this interdisciplinary cultural history that encompasses
film, literature, music, and drama, Inez Hedges follows the thread
of the Faustian rebel in the major intellectual currents of the
last hundred years. She presents Faust and his counterpart
Mephistopheles as antagonistic--yet complementary--figures whose
productive conflict was integral to such phenomena as the birth of
narrative cinema, the rise of modernist avant-gardes before World
War II, and feminist critiques of Western cultural traditions.
"Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles "pursues a
dialectical approach to cultural history. Using the probing lens of
cultural studies, Hedges shows how claims to the Faustian legacy
permeated the struggle against Nazism in the 1930s while infusing
not only the search for socialist utopias in Russia, France, and
Germany, but also the quest for legitimacy on both sides of the
Cold War divide after 1945.
Hedges balances new perspectives on such well-known works as
Thomas Mann's "Dr. Faustus "and Jack Kerouac's "Dr. Sax "with
discussions of previously overlooked twentieth-century expressions
of the Faust myth, including American "film noir" and the Faust
films of Stan Brakhage." "She evaluates musical compositions--Hanns
Eisler's "Faust "libretto, the opera "Votre Faust "by Henri
Pousseur and Michel Butor, and Alfred Schnittke's "Faust
Cantata--"as well as works of fiction and drama in French and
German, many of which have heretofore never been discussed outside
narrow disciplinary confines.
Enhanced by twenty-four illustrations, "Framing Faust "provides
a fascinating and focused narrative of some of the major cultural
struggles of the past century as seen through the Faustian prism,
and establishes Faust as an important present-day frame of
reference.
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