Dario Argento

by Cooper, L. Andrew

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Full title :Dario Argento / L. Andrew Cooper.

Summary

Commanding a cult following among horror fans, Italian film director Dario Argento is best known for his work in two closely related genres, the crime thriller and supernatural horror. In his four decades of filmmaking, Argento has displayed a commitment to innovation, from his directorial debut with 1970's suspense thriller The Bird with the Crystal Plumage to 2009's Giallo. His films, like the lurid yellow-covered murder-mystery novels they are inspired by, follow the suspense tradition of hard-boiled American detective fiction while incorporating baroque scenes of violence and excess. This book uses controversies and theories about the films' reflections on sadism, gender, sexuality, psychoanalysis, aestheticism, and genre to declare the anti-rational logic of Argento's oeuvre. Approaching the films as rhetorical statements made through extremes of sound and vision, it places Argento in a tradition of aestheticized horror that includes De Sade, De Quincey, Poe, and Hitchcock.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Illinois Press
Place of Publication:Urbana
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 186 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780252037092, 025203709X, 9780252078743, 0252078748
oclc:ocn788269563
LC Classification:PN1998.3.A74
Dewey Decimal:791.4302/33092

Dario Argento: doing violence on film -- Against criticism: Opera and The Stendhal Syndrome -- Opera -- The Stendhal syndrome -- Against interpretation: The First Five Gialli -- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage -- The Cat o' Nine Tails -- Four Flies on Grey Velvet -- Deep Red -- Tenebre -- Against Narrative: The Three Mothers Trilogy and Phenomena -- Suspiria -- Inferno -- Mother of tears -- Phenomena -- Against Conventions: From Trauma to Giallo -- Trauma -- The Stendhal Syndrome (Revisited) -- Sleepless -- The Card Player -- Do You Like Hitchcock? -- Giallo -- Interviews with Dario Argento -- Filmography: feature films and television directed by Dario Argento.