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Book SynopsisIn its heyday from the 1950s until the 1980s Italian horror cinema was characterised by an excess of gore and often-incoherent plot-lines. This collection brings together a range of contributions aimed at a new understanding of the genre, investigating the work of its most representative directors and the role it has played within popular culture.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Preferisco l'inferno: Early Italian horror cinema, Russ Hunter Chapter 2: Domestic Films Made for Export: Modes of Production of the 1960s Italian Horror Film, Francesco Di Chiara Chapter 3: The 1980s Italian horror cinema of imitation: the good, the ugly and the sequel, Stefano Baschiera Chapter 4: Knowing the unknown beyond: 'Italianate' and 'Italian' horror cinema in the twenty-first century, Johnny Walker Chapter 5: Bavaesque: The Making of Mario Bava as Italian horror auteur, Peter Hutchings Chapter 6: The Argento Syndrome: Aesthetics of Horror, Marcia Landy Chapter 7: Scrap Metal, Stains, Clogged Drains: Argento's Refuse and Its Refusals, Karl Schoonover Chapter 8: The Giallo/Slasher Landscape: Ecologia del delitto, Friday the 13th, and Subtractive Spectatorship, Adam Lowenstein Chapter 9: Kings of Terror, Geniuses of Crime: giallo cinema and fumetti neri, Leon Hunt Chapter 10: Political Memory in the Italian Hinterland: Locating the 'Rural Giallo', Austin Fisher Chapter 11: The Horror of Progressive Rock: Goblin and Horror Soundtracks, Craig Hatch Chapter 12: 'The Only Monsters Here Are the Filmmakers': Animal Cruelty and Death in Italian Cannibal Films, Mark Bernard Chapter 13: Italian Horror cinema and Italian Film Journals of the 1970s, Paolo Noto
