Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Preferisco l'inferno: early Italian horror cinema
- 2 Domestic films made for export: modes of production of the 1960s Italian horror film
- 3 The 1980s Italian horror cinema of imitation: the good, the ugly and the sequel
- 4 Knowing the unknown beyond: ‘Italianate’ and ‘Italian’ horror cinema in the twenty-first century
- 5 Bavaesque: the making of Mario Bava as Italian horror auteur
- 6 The Argento Syndrome: aesthetics of horror
- 7 Scrap metal, stains, clogged drains: Argento's refuse and its refusals
- 8 The giallo /slasher landscape: Ecologia del delitto, Friday the 13th and subtractive spectatorship
- 9 Kings of terror, geniuses of crime: giallo cinema and fumetti neri
- 10 Political memory in the Italian hinterland: locating the ‘rural giallo’
- 11 The horror of progressive rock: Goblin and horror soundtracks
- 12 ‘The only monsters here are the filmmakers’: animal cruelty and death in Italian cannibal films
- 13 Italian horror cinema and Italian film journals of the 1970s
- Index
List of contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Preferisco l'inferno: early Italian horror cinema
- 2 Domestic films made for export: modes of production of the 1960s Italian horror film
- 3 The 1980s Italian horror cinema of imitation: the good, the ugly and the sequel
- 4 Knowing the unknown beyond: ‘Italianate’ and ‘Italian’ horror cinema in the twenty-first century
- 5 Bavaesque: the making of Mario Bava as Italian horror auteur
- 6 The Argento Syndrome: aesthetics of horror
- 7 Scrap metal, stains, clogged drains: Argento's refuse and its refusals
- 8 The giallo /slasher landscape: Ecologia del delitto, Friday the 13th and subtractive spectatorship
- 9 Kings of terror, geniuses of crime: giallo cinema and fumetti neri
- 10 Political memory in the Italian hinterland: locating the ‘rural giallo’
- 11 The horror of progressive rock: Goblin and horror soundtracks
- 12 ‘The only monsters here are the filmmakers’: animal cruelty and death in Italian cannibal films
- 13 Italian horror cinema and Italian film journals of the 1970s
- Index
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- Information
- Italian Horror Cinema , pp. viii - xPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2016