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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Suspense-Thriller’s Pygmalion Complex: Masculine Desire in Vertigo (1958), Les Biches (1968), and Body Double (1984)
verfasst von : Kaelie Thompson
Erschienen in: Classical Myth on Screen
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses features the story of Pygmalion, a sculptor whose disgust for the sinful nature of the women of Cyprus inspires him to carve a female figure from ivory so smooth, so pure, that life seems to pulse beneath its surface (Metamorphoses 10.243–97).1 Entranced by this beautiful image, Pygmalion falls in love with the statue and beseeches Venus, Roman goddess of love, to bring him a wife as fine as his creation. So the statue comes alive beneath his loving touch, and they are united in marriage, complete with a child to ensure Pygmalion’s legacy.