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Cutting Edge

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Art-Horror

and the

Horrific

Cutting Edge

Joan Hawkins

University of Minnesota Press

Minneapolis — London

Avant-garde

The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint

the following. Parts of chapter 1 appeared as “Sleaze Mania” in Film Quarterly 53,

printed by permission. An earlier version of chapter 7 appeared as “ ‘One of Us’:

Tod Browning’s Freaks, ” in Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body,

edited by Rosemarie Garland Thomson (New York: New York University Press,

trieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechani-

cal, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission

of the publisher.

Published by the University of Minnesota Press

111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290

Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hawkins, Joan, 1953–

Cutting edge : art-horror and the horriﬁc avant-garde / Joan Hawkins

p. cm.

“Select Filmography and Videography” : p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 0-8166-3413-0 (alk. paper)

— ISBN 0-8166-3414-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Experimental ﬁlms—Europe—History and criticism. 2. Horror ﬁlms—

History and criticism. I. Title.

PN1995.9.E96 H38 2000

791.43'6164—dc21

99-051008

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer.

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