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The Cinema of Tod Browning: Essays of the Macabre and Grotesque

The Cinema of Tod Browning: Essays of the Macabre and Grotesque


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As a director, actor, writer and producer, Tod Browning was one of the most dynamic Hollywood figures during the birth of commercial cinema. Known for his fantastic collaborations with Lon Chaney in numerous silents, and for directing the horror classic Dracula and the still-controversial Freaks, Browning has been called "the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema." Despite not entering the profession until he began acting in his early thirties, he went on to helm more than 60 films in a 25-year career. His work continues to influence directors such as David Lynch, John Waters, and Alejandro Jodorowsky. These essays critically explore such topics as the connection between Browning, Poe and Kant; Browning's cinematic techniques; disability; masochism; sound and suspense; duality; parenthood; narrative and cinematic trickery; George Melford; surrealism; and the occult. A Browning filmography is included.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Introduction: Browning = Poe + Kant + ... = Cinema BERND HERZOGENRATH      Undoing Make-Believe: The Magic of Cinema in Tod Browning’s Films EKKEHARD KNÖRER      In Love with a Nightmare: Disability Imagery and Fascination in The Unknown HIONI KARAMANOS      Cinematic Torture Machines: Tod Browning and Masochism LARS NOWAK      Shaking an Elephant: Sound, Space and Suspense in The Unholy Three MICHAEL LAWRENCE      The Black Bird: Mocking Duality F. GWYNPLAINE MACINTYRE      Seeing Through Seeing Through: The Trompe l’Oeil Effect and Bodily Difference in the Cinema of Tod Browning HUGH S. MANON      The Big City: All of Browning’s Universe in One Film F. GWYNPLAINE MACINTYRE      Lost in Proto-Performance: West of Zanzibar and the Last Stand of the Primal Father BJÖRN QUIRING      You’re Better Off Without Your Parents: Where East Is East Seen Through a Daughter’s Eyes SARAH DELLMANN      Tod Browning vs. George Melford: Dracula’s Doppelgänger FRANK LAFOND      Browning. Freak. Woman. Stain. EUGENIE BRINKEMA      Mark of the Vampire: Seeing Is Believing REYNOLD HUMPHRIES      An Incident in the History of Surrealism: On a Sequence in The Devil-Doll ADRIAN MARTIN      Miracles for Sale and Other Films of Detection and the Occult MARCEL ARBEIT      Filmography      About the Contributors      Index     

About the Author :
Bernd Herzogenrath is a professor of American literature and culture and teaches at the University of Hannover and the University of Cologne, Germany.

Review :
“remarkable”—National Board of Review.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780786434473
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 249
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Essays of the Macabre and Grotesque
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0786434473
  • Publisher Date: 22 Sep 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 249
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 390 gr


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