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DESCRIPTION:Mel Gordon in conversation with Russell Blackwood (Director of 
 Thrillpeddlers Theater)\n\nTheatre of Fear and Horror: The Grisly Spectacle 
 of the Grand Guignol of Paris 1897-1962\n\nfrom Feral House Press\n\nMel 
 Gordon returns to City Lights celebrating the expanded edition of his 
 classic outré book, The Grand Guignol, first published in 1988 and now 
 long out of print.\n\nLike the original anthology, it includes an 
 illustrated introduction to the theater of Paris and abroad, a breakdown of 
 its stage tricks, a summary of one hundred plots, extensive photo 
 documentation, André de Lord's essay, "Fear in Literature," and two 
 originally produced Grand Guignol scripts.\n\nThe expanded edition also 
 contains additional graphic and textual material including a color insert 
 of Grand Guignol posters; the 1938 autobiographical account of Maxa, the 
 company's leading female performer entitled "I Am the Maddest Woman in the 
 World"; and the controversial playscript Orgy in the Lighthouse.\n\nMel 
 Gordon is Professor Emeretus in the Theater, Dance and Performace Studies 
 Department at the University of California at Berkeley and is the author of 
 numerous books including: Dada Performance; Erik Jan Hanussen; 
 Expressionist Texts; The Grand Guignol: The Theatre of Horror and Terror; 
 Lazzi: The Comic Routines of the Commedia dell'Arte; Mikhoels the Wise; The 
 Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber; The Stanislavsky 
 Technique in America; The Stanislavsky Technique: Russia; Voluptuous Panic: 
 The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin; Horozontal Collaboration:The Erotic 
 World of Paris, 1920-1946, and co-writer of Meyerhold, Eisenstein and 
 Biomechanics: Actor Training in Revolutionary Russia as well as one hundred 
 and thirty articles and entries on American, French, German, Italian, 
 Russian, and Yiddish theater and cinema. He has directed over twenty 
 productions in Frankfurt, Houston, New York City, Paris, and Zurich. He is 
 the former Associate Editor of The Drama Review. He has taught at Lee 
 Strasberg Institute, Michael Chekhov Studio, New York University, and Yale 
 University.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790906.php
SUMMARY:Mel Gordon on the Grand Guignol
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\n261 Columbus Ave\nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790906.php
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