Cinema of Tod Browning

Essays of the Macabre and Grotesque

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-09-22
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt345 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor249
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786434473

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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Browning = Poe + Kant + ... = CinemaBERND HERZOGENRATH Undoing Make-Believe: The Magic of Cinema in Tod Browning’s FilmsEKKEHARD KNÖRER In Love with a Nightmare: Disability Imagery and Fascination in The UnknownHIONI KARAMANOS Cinematic Torture Machines: Tod Browning and MasochismLARS NOWAK Shaking an Elephant: Sound, Space and Suspense in The Unholy ThreeMICHAEL LAWRENCE The Black Bird: Mocking DualityF. GWYNPLAINE MACINTYRE Seeing Through Seeing Through: The Trompe l’Oeil Effect and Bodily Difference in the Cinema of Tod BrowningHUGH S. MANON The Big City: All of Browning’s Universe in One FilmF. GWYNPLAINE MACINTYRE Lost in Proto-Performance: West of Zanzibar and the Last Stand of the Primal FatherBJÖRN QUIRING You’re Better Off Without Your Parents: Where East Is East Seen Through a Daughter’s EyesSARAH DELLMANN Tod Browning vs. George Melford: Dracula’s DoppelgängerFRANK LAFOND Browning. Freak. Woman. Stain.EUGENIE BRINKEMA Mark of the Vampire: Seeing Is BelievingREYNOLD HUMPHRIES An Incident in the History of Surrealism: On a Sequence in The Devil-DollADRIAN MARTIN Miracles for Sale and Other Films of Detection and the OccultMARCEL ARBEIT Filmography About the Contributors Index