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Grand-Guignol cinema and the horror genre : sinister tableaux of dread, corporeality and the senses /
"Grand-Gugignol Cinema and the Horror Genre maps important contributions of the Parisian Grand-Guignol theatre's Golden Age as theoretical considerations of embodiment and affect in the development of horror cinema in the twentieth century. This study traces key components of the Grand-Gui...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Anthem Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Anthem series on exploitation and industry in world cinema.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Grand-Guignol Cinema and the senses: Eyes Without a Face, attractions, affect and facial trauma
- The Grand-Guignol Theatre: A short history of the theatre and spatial ecologies of dread: The Hitch-Hiker and Shivers
- Grotesque carnivals of "stubborn" aurality: Embodied discourse in early talkie horror cinema: Murders in the Rue Morgue, Freaks, and The Black Cat
- The sight of corpses in the ruins of modernity: Surgical sadists under censorship: The Body Snatcher, and Mad Love, The Blood of the Beasts
- Erotic abattoirs of bad taste: Unproductive potlatch in exploitation cinema: Fascination, Grapes of Death, and Salò, or 120 Days of Sodom
- French colonial skinning: Affect and becoming-wound in the cinema of sensation: Trouble Every Day, Sombre, and In My Skin
- Conclusion: Drag performativity and multisensorial dread: Blood and Black Lace and Psycho.