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Grand-Guignol Cinema and the Horror Genre: Sinister Tableaux of Dread, Corporeality and the Senses
Hardback
Main Details
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Grand-Guignol Cinema and the Horror Genre: Sinister Tableaux of Dread, Corporeality and the Senses
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare
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Series | Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:250 | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 153 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9781839980961
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Classifications | Dewey:791.436164 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Anthem Press
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Imprint |
Anthem Press
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NZ Release Date |
14 February 2023 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Grand-Gugignol Cinemaand the Horror Genre traces 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-Guignol stage as a means to explore the immersive and corporeal aspects of horror cinema from the sound period to today. The book is a means to explore the Grand-Guignol not only as a historical place and genre, but also, theoretically, as a conceptual framework that opens up an affective mapping of Grand-Guignol attractions in cinema. This study's restoration of a long Grand-Guignol tradition in cinema makes it a significant contribution to new theorizations of horror. It brings seemingly disparate traditions into conversation, as American, Canadian, French, and Italian cinema are all important sites for thinking through cinematic embodiment. These four countries have developed their own important genres and movements of Grand-Guignol cinema: the slasher, the "French Films of Sensation," Canadian "body horror" and the giallo. The Grand-Guignol famously operated in a dead-end of Chaptal Street, in the Pigalle district of Paris; this study offers affective and corporeal readings that open up new byways beyond the dead-end of psychoanalytic readings that continues to be dominant in horror genre scholarship.
Author Biography
Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare teaches courses in genre cinema, grotesque traditions, cinematic embodiment and monster ethics in the Humanities department at John Abbott College, Canada. He is also an independent filmmaker and the codirector of the Montreal Monstrum Society.
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