Italian Horror Cinema / / Stefano Baschiera, Russ Hunter.

The first book-length academic investigation of Italian horror cinema, from the silent era to the presentIn its heyday from the late 1950s until the early 1980s Italian horror cinema was characterised by an excess of gore, violence and often incoherent plot-lines. Films about zombies, cannibals and...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of figures
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Preferisco l'inferno: early Italian horror cinema
  • 2. Domestic films made for export: modes of production of the 1960s Italian horror film
  • 3. The 1980s Italian horror cinema of imitation: the good, the ugly and the sequel
  • 4. Knowing the unknown beyond: 'Italianate' and 'Italian' horror cinema in the twenty-first century
  • 5. Bavaesque: the making of Mario Bava as Italian horror auteur
  • 6. The Argento Syndrome: aesthetics of horror
  • 7. Scrap metal, stains, clogged drains: Argento's refuse and its refusals
  • 8. The giallo/slasher landscape: Ecologia del delitto, Friday the 13th and subtractive spectatorship
  • 9. Kings of terror, geniuses of crime: giallo cinema and fumetti neri
  • 10. Political memory in the Italian hinterland: locating the 'rural giallo'
  • 11. The horror of progressive rock: Goblin and horror soundtracks
  • 12. 'The only monsters here are the filmmakers': animal cruelty and death in Italian cannibal films
  • 13. Italian horror cinema and Italian film journals of the 1970s
  • Index