mardi 11 août 2009

Tarzan reconsidered, culturally, in Paris exhibit

PARIS – Tarzan is back! (Cue distinctive jungle yell.)

But this time the vine-swinging hero is a topic of serious cultural andphilosophical study at a Paris exhibition exploring his links with popular culture.

The venue — the anthropological Quai Branly museum — dictates the serious treatment of Edgar Rice Burroughs' creation, who has been deconstructed in an effort to understand Western culture and how the West views the rest of the world.

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