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Hunchback is a descriptive yet derogatory term for a person who has severe kyphosis (from Greek κυφός / kyphos : a hump).
Hunchback or The Hunchback may also refer to several things.
Arts and entertainment
Cinema
The Hunchback (1914 film), an American silent film featuring Lillian Gish.
Related to Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Quasimodo, 1831)
Several film and game adaptations, whose :
- Hunchback (video game), a 1983 arcade and computer game ;
- The Hunchback (1997 film) a television film directed by Peter Medak ; etc.
Other
- The Hunchback (EP), a 2009 EP by Kurt Vile & the Violators ;
- The Hunchback (play), an 1832 London play by James Sheridan Knowles ;
- Le Bossu (novel) (English: The Hunchback), an 1858 French historical adventure novel by Paul Féval ;
- The Hunchback, a 1943 film adaptation of Féval's novel, directed by Jaime Salvador ;
- Hunchback (Japanese: ハンチバック), a 2023 Japanese novel written by Saou Ichikawa and awarded the Akutagawa Prize.
Other uses
- Hunchback (gene), in the genome of Drosophila embryogenesis ;
- USS Hunchback, a steam-powered gunboat used by the U.S. Navy during the Civil War ;
- Ilyushin Il-2, nicknamed "The Hunchback", a Soviet World War II ground-attack aircraft ;
- Mosul, Iraq, a city nicknamed "The Hunchback" because of the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri.
See also
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (disambiguation),
- list of people known as the Hunchback,
- list of hunchbacks in fiction,
- All pages with titles beginning with hunchback,
- All pages with titles beginning with The Hunchback,
- All pages with titles containing Hunchback.
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