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The Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror (Paperback)

by Teller (Foreword), Mel Gordon (Author)
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  • Paperback: 197 pages
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc; 2nd Revised edition edition (Oct 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0306808064
  • ISBN-13: 978-0306808067
  • Product Dimensions: 26 x 18.4 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,380,868 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful read about a rarely discused stlye of theater., 30 Sep 2000
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This book finally gives the theater of fear and terror it's rightful billing as the catalist for just about everything concerned parents fight against in the entertainment industry of today. Not only is it a wonderful historical source on a theater movement that has fallen by the wayside, but it also acts as a recipe book for those who would like to attempt a re-animation of shock theater from another era. The ingredients are all in there. You get two full length plays ready to go, 100 plots of the most crowd pleasing shows, secrets of achieving realistic bloodshed on stage and enough history and critical theory so that you can defend, as art and preservation, all the gore you can fit on the stage. Even if you're not a performer, the perspective of the book gives anyone interested in the motives behind historical pastimes a wonderful glimse into the entertanment needs oy yesteryear. Seriously folks, it's a treasure on many levels and any bookshelf.
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