Mel Gordon's Cabarets of Death

Death, Dance and Dining in Early 20th Century Paris

Mel Gordon's Cabarets of Death
Mel Gordon, Joanna Ebenstein
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Paperback
h216 x 178mm - 200pg
26 Jan 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781907222269
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From 1892 until 1954, three cabaret-restaurants in the Montmartre district of Paris captivated tourists with their grotesque portrayals of death in the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness. Each had specialized cuisines and morbid visual displays with flashes of nudity and shocking optical illusions. These cabarets were considered the most curious and widely featured amusements in the city. Entrepreneurs even hawked graphic postcards of their ironic spectacles and otherworldly interiors. Cabarets of Death documents the dinner shows, the character interactions with guests, and the theatrical goings-on in these unique establishments. Presenting original images and drawings from contemporary journals, postcards, tourist brochures, and menus, Mel Gordon leads a tour of these idiosyncratically macabre institutions, and grants us unique access to a form of popular spectacle now gone.
Mel Gordon (1947-2018), called a "drama scholar of the fringe" by the New York Times, published books on the grisly Grand Guignol theater, the deviant sexual worlds of Weimar Berlin and Paris, and Hitler' s Jewish clairvoyant. Joanna Ebenstein is a Brooklyn-based artist, curator, writer, and graphic designer. She is the founder of the Morbid Anatomy blog, library, and event series, and was cofounder and creative director of the recently shuttered Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, New York.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781907222269
Published: 26 Jan 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Strange Attractor Press
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 178mm
Pages: 200

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