La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film

La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film

PublisherScarecrow Press Inc.
Cover/Jacket Design byAllison Nealon
About/SubjectGiallo Film, Horror Film: Italy
FormatTrade Paperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationOxford, UK
Copyright2006
Pages / Font193 pages
ISBN 13978-0-8108-5870-1
ISBN 100-8108-5870-3
ChaptersPreface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 - What is Giallo? Chapter 2 - Toward an Understanding of Vernacular Cinema Chapter 3 - Space and Place in Italian Giallo Cinema: The Ambivalence of Modernity Chapter 4 - Murder and Other Sexual Perversions Chapter 5 - Watching the Detectives: Amateur Detectives and the Giallo as Detective Cinema Chapter 6 - The Killer's Identity Chapter 7 - "Weird Science of the Most Egregious Kind": The Ambivalence of Belief in the Giallo Film Chapter 8 - "A Perverse Sublime": excess and the Set Piece in the Giallo Chapter 9 - The Giallo as Cinema of Poetry Chapter 10 - From Giallo to Slasher Filmography Bibliography Index About the Author
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