Cinema of Tod Browning Essays of the Macabre and Grotesque
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Biografisk notat
Bernd Herzogenrath is a professor of American literature and culture and teaches at the University of Hannover and the University of Cologne, Germany.“remarkable”—<i>National Board of Review.</i>
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.
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
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