La dolce morte : vernacular cinema and the Italian giallo film / Mikel J. Koven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koven, Mikel J.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films.

Detective and mystery films.

Horror films--Italy--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery films--Italy--History and criticism.

Italy.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2006.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006.

Summary:

With the exception of die-hard aficionados of European or Italian horror cinema, most people may not have heard of giallo cinema or have seen many films in this subgenre of horror. Most academic film studies tend to ignore horror cinema in general and the giallo specifically. Critics often deride these films, which reveal more about the reviewers' own prejudices than any problem with the works themselves. As a counter to such biases, Mikel J. Koven argues for an alternative approach to studying these films, by approaching them as vernacular cinema-distinct from ""popular cinema.""

Contents:

What is Giallo?

Toward an understanding of vernacular cinema

Space and place in Italian Giallo cinema : the ambivalence of modernity

Murder and other sexual perversions

Watching the detectives : amateur detectives and the Giallo as detective cinema

The killer's identity

"Weird science of the most egregious kind" : the ambivalence of belief in the Giallo film

"A perverse sublime" : excess and the set piece in the Giallo

The Giallo as cinema of poetry

From Giallo to slasher.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.

Includes filmography: pages 173-178.

Print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-8184-038-9

979-88-8186-012-7

1-283-61530-4

9786613927750

1-4616-6416-0

OCLC:

815281566