Mel Gordon's Cabarets of Death: Death, Dance and Dining in Early 20th Century Paris

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Mel Gordon Joanna Ebenstein

Mel Gordon's Cabarets of Death

Death, Dance and Dining in Early 20th Century Paris

Mel Gordon, Joanna Ebenstein

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Strange Attractor Press
05 March 2024

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A tour of three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of death in the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.

Three idiosyncratically macabre cabaret-restaurants in Monmartre, each with its own grotesque portrayal of the afterworlds of Hell, Heaven, and Nothingness.

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.

By: Mel Gordon, Joanna Ebenstein
Imprint: Strange Attractor Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9781907222269
ISBN 10: 190722226X
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 05 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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Death, Dance and Dining in Early 20th Century Paris

Mel Gordon, Joanna Ebenstein

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