Deep Red / Alexia Kannas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kannas, Alexia, author.

Series:

Cultographies.

Cultographies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Horror films--Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (123 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The release of Italian director Dario Argento's Deep Red in 1975 saw both a return to form for the director and the crystallization of tropes of the giallo genre. While the film's immense popularity in Italy spawned a wave of copy-cat formula thrillers, this enthusiastic reception was not replicated by English-speaking audiences on its theatrical release. With its loosely woven narrative and hyper-stylized violent set pieces, Deep Red was critically panned in the United States and the UK as clichéd and exploitative Euro-schlock. Tracing the film's history of censorship, re-edited releases, and its subsequent celebration by cult film audiences, this book considers how these competing discourses have helped to transform the film's cultural status and to fashion it as an exemplar of cult cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Falling for Deep Red

1 Production, Promotion, Initial Reception

2 The Cultification of Deep Red

3 Reading Deep Red

4 Intermittent Transcendence: The Place of Deep Red

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780231851060

OCLC:

1054880106