ENGLISH

The Grand Guignol

By Mel Gordon

Book information

Publisher
Da Capo Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0306808064, 9780306808067
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
139 MB (145378732 bytes)
Edition
Revised
Pages
197\248
Time added
2024-10-23 04:21:15

Description

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.

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