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-'''Mel Gordon''' (February 18, 1947 - March 22, 2018) was a Professor of Theater Arts at the [[University of California]], Berkeley. +'''Mel Gordon''' (February 18, 1947 - March 22, 2018) was a [[theatrical historian]]. He wrote on [[1920s Berlin]], [[Grand Guignol]], [[lazzi]], [[Hanussen]], [[Dada]], [[drugs]] and [[Expressionism]].
- +==Bibliography==
-==Bibligraphy==+*''[[Lazzi: The Comic Routines of the Commedia dell'Arte]]'' (1983)
-*''[[Expressionist Texts]]'' (1986) is a book by [[Mel Gordon|Mel Gordon]]+*''[[Expressionist Texts]]'' (1986)
-Expressionism has been a dominant force in painting, film, graphics, theatre, literature, and music throughout the twentieth century. Several of the classics of the style are represented in this volume, including: Sphinx and the Strawman by Oskar Kokoschka, Sancta Susanna by August Stramm, From Morn to Midnight by Georg Kaiser, Ithaka by Gottfried Benn, The Son by Walter Hasenclever, The Transfiguration by Ernst Toller, Crucifixion by Lothar Schreyer. +
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*''[[Dada Performance]]'' (1987) *''[[Dada Performance]]'' (1987)
*''[[The Grand Guignol]]'' (1988) *''[[The Grand Guignol]]'' (1988)
 +*''[[Meyerhold, Eisenstein and Biomechanics]]'' (1996)
*''[[The Stanislavsky Technique]]'' (2000) *''[[The Stanislavsky Technique]]'' (2000)
-*''[[Hanussen|Hanussen]]: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant'' (2001)+*''[[Hanussen|Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant]]'' (2001)
*''[[Voluptuous Panic]]'' (2006) *''[[Voluptuous Panic]]'' (2006)
*''[[The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber]]'' (2006) *''[[The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber]]'' (2006)
*''[[Horizontal Collaborations]]'' (2015) *''[[Horizontal Collaborations]]'' (2015)
- +==See also==
-Mel Gordon, author of Voluptuous Panic, the celebrated history about the sex culture of Weimar Berlin, returns with a stunningly illustrated look at Paris, The City of Pleasure, prior to and during German occupation during World War II.+*[[Feral House]]
- +*[[Funnyman]]
-The book Horizontal Collaboration encompasses the Jazz Age, Depression, World War and Occupation, and Liberation. It concludes with the shuttering of the licensed brothels in 1946, which some Parisian intellectuals thought was the final "destruction of French civilization".+*[[Nobrow]]
- +*[[Transgression]]
-The term "Horizontal Collaboration" refers to the sexual liaisons between French civilians and German occupiers from 1940 to 1944. These were extremely widespread and included both individual wartime relationships in addition to prostitution. As Allied armies swept across the French countryside, thousands of young women—and some men—were savagely punished by the authorities or by vigilante crowds, becoming a source of deep national shame.+
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-Author Gordon redefines the pejorative term to mean something much broader: French men and women "horizontally collaborated" to overcome all social obstacles, divisions, and regulations. These obstacles include married and unmarried couples, straights and homosexuals, foreigners and locals, gun-toting soldiers and their vanquished subjects. The natural yearning for sexual pleasure equally corrupted all cohabitating partners.+
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-This book rediscovers a remarkable time when the aesthetic and erotic capitol of Europe experienced remarkable heights and shameful lows. . . . Hundreds of images, most never before seen in a book, encompass this fascinating but little-known history. (less)+
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Mel Gordon (February 18, 1947 - March 22, 2018) was a theatrical historian. He wrote on 1920s Berlin, Grand Guignol, lazzi, Hanussen, Dada, drugs and Expressionism.

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