Giallo!: Genre, Modernity, and Detection in Italian Horror Cinema

Italian giallo films have a peculiar allure. Taking their name from the Italian for "yellow"-- reflecting the...
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Author: Alexia Kannas
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Giallo!: Genre, Modernity, and Detection in Italian Horror Cinema by Kannas, Alexia

Giallo!: Genre, Modernity, and Detection in Italian Horror Cinema

$610.16

Giallo!: Genre, Modernity, and Detection in Italian Horror Cinema

$610.16
Author: Alexia Kannas
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Italian giallo films have a peculiar allure. Taking their name from the Italian for "yellow"-- reflecting the covers of pulp crime novels--these genre movies were principally produced between 1960 and the late 1970s. These cinematic hybrids of crime, horror, and detection are characterized by elaborate set-piece murders, lurid aesthetics, and experimental soundtracks. Using critical frameworks drawn from genre theory, reception studies, and cultural studies, Giallo! traces this historically marginalized genre's journey from Italian cinemas to the global cult-film canon. Through close textual analysis of films including The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963), Blood and Black Lace (1964), The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), The Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971), and The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972), Alexia Kannas considers the rendering of urban space in the giallo and how it expresses a complex and unsettling critique of late modernity.

Author: Alexia Kannas
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 07/02/2021
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9781438480329

About the Author
Alexia Kannas is Lecturer in Media and Cinema Studies in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Deep Red.


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