The Grand GuignolHachette Books, 21 aug 1997 - 174 pagina's 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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Pagina 58
... suddenly the electric lights go out . After a long search for a candle and matches , the child's mother , Angele , finally lights the candle's wick . Now Margy informs her of the bad news : her little girl expired during the dark lull ...
... suddenly the electric lights go out . After a long search for a candle and matches , the child's mother , Angele , finally lights the candle's wick . Now Margy informs her of the bad news : her little girl expired during the dark lull ...
Pagina 61
... Suddenly one of the insane rushes the complaining woman and strangles her to death . The Mysterious Man ( André de Lorde , 1921 ) . A three - act horror play with the additional theme of the Suffering of the Innocent . The head of a ...
... Suddenly one of the insane rushes the complaining woman and strangles her to death . The Mysterious Man ( André de Lorde , 1921 ) . A three - act horror play with the additional theme of the Suffering of the Innocent . The head of a ...
Pagina 120
... ( suddenly cheery ) Say , old pal - are we in the wrong place ? . . . Are you sure this is it ? Imagine if we've come into another place by mistake ! ... That would be funny ! Yes , that would be funny ... ( They both laugh . Suddenly ...
... ( suddenly cheery ) Say , old pal - are we in the wrong place ? . . . Are you sure this is it ? Imagine if we've come into another place by mistake ! ... That would be funny ! Yes , that would be funny ... ( They both laugh . Suddenly ...
Inhoudsopgave
Photo Documentation | 51 |
page | 106 |
Dr Goudron | 121 |
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acting additional themes Alfred Binet André de Lorde Antoine asylum audience blood Bourgeois Morality Caligari CHIEF GUARD Choisy comedy corpse crime cured daughter dead director DOCTOR door stage drama Edgar Poe enters Eugenie eyes fear French frightened gentlemen going Gorlitz GOUDRON Grand Guignol GRAND GUIGNOL THEATRE HENRI Herschell Gordon Lewis horrifying horror play HUNCHBACK husband Imprisonment innocent insane JEAN Jouvin Joyeuse kill laughing leave look Lorde's LOUISE Louise's lover lunatics MADAME ROBIN Marex Maurice Level Max Maurey Maxa Mel Gordon Mlle Monsieur murdered Mutilation naturalist night NORMANDY WOMAN ONE-EYE Oscar Méténier Paris Parisian patients playwrights Plume prostitute returns Robert rosse play Sartène scene screams sex farce SISTER spectators stage left strangles Suddenly Sybil Thorndike tell terrifying terror Théâtre Libre themes of Cuckoldry themes of Exoticism themes of Guilt thief torture two-act Vengeance violent wife window women young