Succès de scandale

In some cases the controversy causes audiences to seek out the work for its titillating content, while in others it simply heightens public curiosity.

[1] The Belle Époque ('beautiful era') in Paris, roughly from 1871 to 1914, was notable for many succès de scandale.

Paul Chabas's September Morn was not the last time that Comstockery fanned the success it wanted to prohibit: Mae West quipped "I believe in censorship.

[9] Films qualified as succès de scandale include Louis Malle's 1958 The Lovers,[10] Bernardo Bertolucci's 1972 Last Tango in Paris.

[12] Even famous writers like Flaubert and Joyce have been described as deploying succès de scandale recipes to their advantage.

Luncheon on the Grass was one of the first in a series of Parisian succès de scandale .
Richard Strauss's head on a silver platter satirizes the decapitation of John the Baptist in his operatic version of Wilde 's Salome
Not a commercial success in Europe, Paul Chabas 's September Morn ended up in the permanent collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art , after scandalising Anthony Comstock and his New York Society for the Suppression of Vice .