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. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-3 van 30
Pagina
... French soldiers were trucked into Paris for a day , where they were wined and dined in fine restaurants and in the evening brought to watch the Grand Guig- nol as a special treat . Internal French mili- tary files after the war reported ...
... French soldiers were trucked into Paris for a day , where they were wined and dined in fine restaurants and in the evening brought to watch the Grand Guig- nol as a special treat . Internal French mili- tary files after the war reported ...
Pagina 31
... French theatre - goers , there was some resentment against the Theatre of Horror and Terror , although these ill - feelings paled when compared with their real hatred toward the " legitimate " theatres , revue - houses , and cabarets ...
... French theatre - goers , there was some resentment against the Theatre of Horror and Terror , although these ill - feelings paled when compared with their real hatred toward the " legitimate " theatres , revue - houses , and cabarets ...
Pagina 73
... French , who are marching through Paris . The old colonel becomes totally insane for a moment , stiffens , then dies ... French soldiers take control of a cave from a fleeing German army . As soon as the French unit enters , a German ...
... French , who are marching through Paris . The old colonel becomes totally insane for a moment , stiffens , then dies ... French soldiers take control of a cave from a fleeing German army . As soon as the French unit enters , a German ...
Inhoudsopgave
Photo Documentation | 51 |
page | 106 |
Dr Goudron | 121 |
Copyright | |
1 andere gedeelten niet getoond
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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