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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... Théâtre Libre ( a wishful name , since it was paid for out of Antoine's dwindling resources ) made its renown for other reasons . Actual used furniture , replete with nicks and stains , and objects from daily life , such as sides of ...
... Théâtre Libre ( a wishful name , since it was paid for out of Antoine's dwindling resources ) made its renown for other reasons . Actual used furniture , replete with nicks and stains , and objects from daily life , such as sides of ...
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... theatre - goers . Méténier's rosse vignettes were brief , rarely longer than fifteen minutes , but lurid and effective . In the Family , the sensation of the Théâtre Libre's second evening , mounted on May 30th , 1887 , glimpsed into ...
... theatre - goers . Méténier's rosse vignettes were brief , rarely longer than fifteen minutes , but lurid and effective . In the Family , the sensation of the Théâtre Libre's second evening , mounted on May 30th , 1887 , glimpsed into ...
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... Théâtre Libre . In fact , his 285 - seat theatre ( variously given as 280 , 272 , 265 and 230 seats ) seemed like a grisly extension of the Théâtre Libre . It was said that he called it the Grand Guignol after the name of " Guignol ...
... Théâtre Libre . In fact , his 285 - seat theatre ( variously given as 280 , 272 , 265 and 230 seats ) seemed like a grisly extension of the Théâtre Libre . It was said that he called it the Grand Guignol after the name of " Guignol ...
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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