Dario Argento
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 ha…
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- Full title :Dario Argento / L. Andrew Cooper.
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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. The author 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, the author places Argento in a tradition of aestheticized horror that includes De Sade, De Quincey, Poe, and Hitchcock. He reveals how the director's stylistic excesses, often condemned for glorifying misogyny and other forms of violence, offer productive resistance to the cinema's visual, narrative, and political norms.
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- Publication Date:2012
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- Publisher(s):University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication:Urbana
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (216 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780252094385, 0252094387, 1283735377, 9781283735377
- oclc:ocn859687021
- LC Classification:PN1998.3.A74
- Dewey Decimal:791.4302/33092
Table of Contents
Dario Argento : doing violence on film. Against criticism : Opera and The Stendhal Syndrome ; Against interpretation : the first five Gialli ; Against narrative : the Three Mothers trilogy and Phenomena ; Against conventions : from Trauma to Giallo -- Interviews with Dario Argento.
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