Review of: Kirsten Möller, Inge Stephan, Alexandra Tacke (Hg.): Carmen. Ein Mythos in Literatur, Film und Kunst. Köln u.a.: Böhlau Verlag 2011.

Abstract

This anthology presents current studies about the Carmen myth in literature, film, art, and music culture from a gender-specific, a transmedial, as well as a transcultural perspective. The thesis that Carmen can be understood as the product of the bricolage of myths and as an object of projection for primarily male coded fictions of exoticism and alterity functions as the common methodological premise of the volume. Filmic, literary, pictorial, musical, and performative realizations of the Carmen myth from the 19^th to the 21^st century illustrate the continuities and discontinuities in dealing with the myth.