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Author:   Bernd Herzogenrath
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9780786434473

ISBN 10:   0786434473
Pages:   249
Publication Date:   22 September 2008
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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     

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

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