Black Sunday

Black Sunday

by Conterio, Martyn

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Despite its reputation as one of the greatest and most influential of all horror films, there is surprisingly little literature dedicated to Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), and this contribution to the Devil's Advocates series is the first single book dedicated to it. Martyn Conterio places the film in the historical context of being one of the first sound Italian horror films and how its success kick-started the Italian horror boom. The author considers the particularly Italian perspective o…

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  • Full title :Black Sunday / Martyn Conterio.

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Despite its reputation as one of the greatest and most influential of all horror films, there is surprisingly little literature dedicated to Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), and this contribution to the Devil's Advocates series is the first single book dedicated to it. Martyn Conterio places the film in the historical context of being one of the first sound Italian horror films and how its success kick-started the Italian horror boom. The author considers the particularly Italian perspective on the gothic that the film pioneered and its fresh and pioneering approach to horror tropes such as the vampire and the witch and considers how the casting of British 'Scream Queen' Barbara Steele was crucial to the film's effectiveness and success.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Auteur
  • Place of Publication:Leighton Buzzard
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

  • Description:99 pages : : illustrations ; : 19 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781906733834, 190673383X
  • oclc:ocn908966465
  • LC Classification:PN1997.B5923
  • Dewey Decimal:791.4372

Subjects

Films d'horreur -- Italie Horror films Horror films, Italy Italy Maschera del demonio (Motion picture)

Writers

Conterio, Martyn

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