Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Introduction: Grand-Guignol Cinema and the Senses: Eyes Without a Face, Attractions, Affect and Facial Trauma
- Chapter One The Grand-Guignol Theatre: A Short History of theTheatre and Spatial Ecologies of Dread The Hitch-Hiker and Shivers
- Chapter Two Grotesque Carnivals of “Stubborn” Aurality: Embodied Discourse in Early Talkie Horror Cinema Murders in the Rue Morgue, Freaks, and The Black Cat
- Chapter Three The Sight of Corpses in the Ruins of Modernity: Surgical Sadists under Censorship: The Body Snatcher, and Mad Love, The Blood of the Beasts
- Chapter Four Erotic Abattoirs of Bad Taste: Unproductive Potlatch in Exploitation Cinema: Fascination, Grapes of Death, and Salò, or 120 Days of Sodom
- Chapter Five French Colonial Skinning: Affect and Becoming-Wound in the Cinema of Sensation: Trouble Every Day, Sombre, and In My Skin
- Conclusion: Drag Performativity and Multisensorial Dread Blood and Black Lace and Psycho
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Introduction: Grand-Guignol Cinema and the Senses: Eyes Without a Face, Attractions, Affect and Facial Trauma
- Chapter One The Grand-Guignol Theatre: A Short History of theTheatre and Spatial Ecologies of Dread The Hitch-Hiker and Shivers
- Chapter Two Grotesque Carnivals of “Stubborn” Aurality: Embodied Discourse in Early Talkie Horror Cinema Murders in the Rue Morgue, Freaks, and The Black Cat
- Chapter Three The Sight of Corpses in the Ruins of Modernity: Surgical Sadists under Censorship: The Body Snatcher, and Mad Love, The Blood of the Beasts
- Chapter Four Erotic Abattoirs of Bad Taste: Unproductive Potlatch in Exploitation Cinema: Fascination, Grapes of Death, and Salò, or 120 Days of Sodom
- Chapter Five French Colonial Skinning: Affect and Becoming-Wound in the Cinema of Sensation: Trouble Every Day, Sombre, and In My Skin
- Conclusion: Drag Performativity and Multisensorial Dread Blood and Black Lace and Psycho
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Grand-Guignol Cinema and the Horror GenreSinister Tableaux of Dread, Corporeality and the Senses, pp. i - ivPublisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2023