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The Grand Guignol : theatre of fear and terror
- Title
- The Grand Guignol : theatre of fear and terror / [edited by] Mel Gordon.
- Publication
- New York : Da Capo press, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN2636.P4 G75 1997 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Gordon, Mel.
- Description
- vii, 174 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- From its beginnings in turn-of-the-century Paris and throughout its sixty-year reign of terror, the Theatre of the Grand Guignol gleefully celebrated horror and fear. Innocent victims, mangled beauty, insanity, mutilation, depravity, and guilt were its primary themes. By dissecting primal taboos in an unprecedentedly graphic manner, it became the progenitor of all the blood-spilling, eye-gouging, and limb-hacking "splatter" movies of today.
- This first English-language book on Grand Guignol examines its history, themes, and methods; summarizes its plots; provides the texts of two typical plays; and illustrates it with close to 100 pictures.
- Subject
- Théâtre du Grand-Guignol > History
- Note
- Originally published: New York: Amok Press, 1988.
- "First Da Capo Press edition"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 50).
- Contents
- The Grand Guignol: A History -- 100 Plots Of The Grand Guignol -- Photo Documentation Of Three Plays -- Fear In Literature: An Essay / Andre de Lorde -- The System Of Dr. Goudron and Prof. Plume / Andre de Lorde -- A Crime in a Madhouse / Andre de Lorde and Alfred Binet.
- ISBN
- 0306808064 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97017646
- OCLC
- ocm37155052
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries