Introduction: What have they done to our daughters? -- The problem of genre -- The cultification of the Italian giallo -- No place like home : the late-modern city -- Those who wait : tourists, detectives and urban experience in the giallo city -- The most unnatural kind of deat…
Italian giallo films have a peculiar allure. Taking their name from the Italian for ?yellow?? reflecting the covers of pulp crime novels?these genre movies were principally produced between 1960 and the late 1970s. These cinematic hybrids of crime, horror, and detection are char…
Italian giallo films have a peculiar allure. Taking their name from the Italian for “yellow”-- reflecting the covers of pulp crime novels--these genre movies were principally produced between 1960 and the late 1970s. These cinematic hybrids of crime, horror, and detection are ch…
"A study of Italian giallo cinema, a stylized genre combining crime, mystery, and horror"--
"A study of Italian giallo cinema, a stylized genre combining crime, mystery, and horror"-- "Italian giallo films have a peculiar allure. Taking their name from the Italian for “yellow”— reflecting the covers of pulp crime novels—these genre movies were principally produced bet…
A critical evaluation of director Dario Argento's 1975 giallo cult classic Profondo rosso (Deep red)
A critical evaluation of director Dario Argento's 1975 giallo cult classic Profondo rosso (Deep red).
Tracing Deep Red's history of censorship, re-edited releases, and its subsequent celebration by cult film audiences, this book considers how these competing discourses have helped to transform the film's cultural status and to fashion it as an exemplar of cult cinema.
