Giallo!

Giallo! PDF

Author: Alexia Kannas

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2020-11-01

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1438480342

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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 characterized by elaborate set-piece murders, lurid aesthetics, and experimental soundtracks. Using critical frameworks drawn from genre theory, reception studies, and cultural studies, Giallo! traces this historically marginalized genre's journey from Italian cinemas to the global cult-film canon. Through close textual analysis of films including The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963), Blood and Black Lace (1964), The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), The Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971), and The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972), Alexia Kannas considers the rendering of urban space in the giallo and how it expresses a complex and unsettling critique of late modernity.

The Blood Red Experiment

The Blood Red Experiment PDF

Author: Jack Bates

Publisher:

Published: 2018-11-21

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9781728621609

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Inspired by the genius of Hitchcock and his films, latin luminaries such as Argento and Bava directed macabre murder-mystery thrillers, that combined the suspense with scenes of outrageous violence, stylish cinematography, and groovy soundtracks. This genre became known in their native Italy as giallo. Giallo is Italian for yellow, inspired by the lurid covers of thrillers, in the way that pulp fiction was derived from the cheap wood pulp paper of the crime stories, or Film Noir came from the chiaroscuro of the German Expressionistic lighting. Craig Douglas and Jason Michel bring gialli-inspired stories together from some of the best crime writers on the scene today to a wider audience, giving birth to a new literary movement in crime writing, NeoGiallo, and drag this much maligned genre screaming and slashing its way into the 21st Century.

Giallo! Hb

Giallo! Hb PDF

Author: ALEXIA KANNAS

Publisher: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinem

Published: 2020-11

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781438480336

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Traces the giallo mystery/horror genre from its genesis in Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s to its contemporary place in the global cult-film canon.

Maydica

Maydica PDF

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13:

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Journal devoted to maize and allied species.

Blood and Black Lace

Blood and Black Lace PDF

Author: Roberto Curti

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781800342538

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Mario Bava's 'Blood and Black Lace' (1964) is a legendary title, and is commonly considered as the archetypal giallo. A murder mystery about a faceless and menacing killer stalking the premises of a luxurious fashion house in Rome, 'Blood and Black Lace' set the rules for the genre: a masked, black-gloved killer, an emphasis on graphic violence, elaborate and suspenseful murder sequences. But 'Blood and Black Lace' is first and foremost an exquisitely stylish film, full of gorgeous colour schemes, elegant camerawork, and surrealistic imagery, testimony of Bava's mastery and his status as an innovator within popular cinema. This book recollects the film's production history, putting it within the context of the Italian film industry of the period and includes plenty of previously unheard-of data.

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