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Grand-Guignol Cinema and the Horror Genre: Sinister Tableaux of Dread, Corporeality and the Senses

Hardback

Main Details

Title Grand-Guignol Cinema and the Horror Genre: Sinister Tableaux of Dread, Corporeality and the Senses
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare
SeriesAnthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:250
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 153
ISBN/Barcode 9781839980961
ClassificationsDewey:791.436164
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Anthem Press
Imprint Anthem Press
NZ Release Date 14 February 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.