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Black Sunday / Martyn Conterio.
Van Pelt Library PN1997.B5956 C66 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conterio, Martyn, author.
- Series:
- Devil's advocates
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bava, Mario, 1914-1980.
- Horror films--Italy--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Bava, Mario, 1914-1980--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bava, Mario.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 99 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leighton Buzzard : Auteur, 2015.
- Summary:
- Despite its reputation as one of the greatest and most influential of all horror films, there is surprisingly little literature dedicated to Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), and this contribution to the Devil's Advocates series is the first single book dedicated to it. Martyn Conterio places the film in the historical context of being one of the first sound Italian horror films and how its success kick-started the Italian horror boom. The author considers the particularly Italian perspective on the gothic that the film pioneered and its fresh and pioneering approach to horror tropes such as the vampire and the witch and considers how the casting of British 'Scream Queen' Barbara Steele was crucial to the film's effectiveness and success.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-99).
- ISBN:
- 190673383X
- 9781906733834
- OCLC:
- 908966465
- Publisher Number:
- 99963597340
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