Dario Argento / L. Andrew Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, L. Andrew, 1977-

Series:

Contemporary Film Directors

Contemporary film directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Argento, Dario--Criticism and interpretation.

Argento, Dario.

Argento, Dario--Interviews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Italian film director Dario Argento is best known for his work in two closely related genres, the crime thriller and supernatural horror. Approaching Argento's films as rhetorical statements made through extremes of sound and vision, Cooper places Argento in a tradition of aestheticized horror.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""DARIO ARGENTO: DOING VIOLENCE ON FILM""; ""Against Criticism: Opera and the Stendhal Syndrome""; ""Opera""; ""The Stendhal Syndrome""; ""Against Interpretation: The First Five Gialli""; ""The Bird with the Crystal Plumage""; ""The Cat o' Nine Tails""; ""Four Flies on Grey Velvet""; ""Deep Red""; ""Tenebre""; ""Against Narrative: The Three Mothers Trilogy and Phenomena""; ""Suspiria""; ""Inferno""; ""Mother of Tears""; ""Phenomena""; ""Against Conventions: From Trauma to Giallo""; ""Trauma""

""The Stendhal Syndrome (Revisited)""""Sleepless""; ""The Card Player""; ""Do You Like Hitchcock?""; ""Giallo""; ""INTERVIEWS WITH DARIO ARGENTO""; ""Filmography""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

9781283735377

1283735377

9780252094385

0252094387

OCLC:

820530670