Broken mirrors, broken minds : the dark dreams of Dario Argento / Maitland McDonagh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonagh, Maitland.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--Italy--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Argento, Dario--Criticism and interpretation.

Argento, Dario.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

Expanded ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Italian filmmaker Dario Argento's horror films have been described as a blend of Alfred Hitchcock and George Romero-psychologically rich, colorful, and at times garish, excelling at taking the best elements of the splatter and exploitation genres and laying them over a dark undercurrent of human emotions and psyches. Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds, which dissects such Argento cult films as Two Evil Eyes, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Suspiria, and Deep Red, includes a new introduction discussing Argento's most recent films, from The Stendahl Syndrome

Contents:

Introduction to the Dark dreams of Dario Argento

Bird with the crystal plumage

Cat o'nine tails and Four flies on grey velvet

Cinque giornate and Deep red

Suspiria and Inferno

Tenebrae and Creepers

Opera and Two evil eyes

Epilogue

Afterword: trauma and the changing face of horror

Interview with Dario Argento (circa 1985).

Notes:

Originally published: London : Sun Tavern Fields, 1991.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8166-7342-X

OCLC:

646067959