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La dolce morte : vernacular cinema and the Italian giallo film
- Title
- La dolce morte : vernacular cinema and the Italian giallo film / Mikel J. Koven.
- Author
- Koven, Mikel J.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006.
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- Description
- x, 195 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In addition to being the first academic study of the giallo film in English, this book surveys more than fifty films of this subgenre. The works of twenty-five different filmmakers are considered, including Mario Bava and Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Pupi Avati, and Umberto Lenzi. Koven explores the interrelationships between these films; how one influences the others, how certain filmmakers take ideas and expand on them, and how those ideas are further transformed by other filmmakers. Koven also discusses the impact of the giallo on the later North American slasher genre."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-185) and index.
- Includes filmography: p. 173-178.
- Contents
- 1. What is Giallo? -- 2. Toward an understanding of vernacular cinema -- 3. Space and place in Italian Giallo cinema : the ambivalence of modernity -- 4. Murder and other sexual perversions -- 5. Watching the detectives : amateur detectives and the Giallo as detective cinema -- 6. The killer's identity -- 7. "Weird science of the most egregious kind" : the ambivalence of belief in the Giallo film -- 8. "A perverse sublime" : excess and the set piece in the Giallo -- 9. The Giallo as cinema of poetry -- 10. From Giallo to slasher.
- ISBN
- 0810858703 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006015624
- 9780810858701
- OCLC
- OCM69020938
- SCSB-5287471
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries