{"product_id":"italian-horror-cinema-9781474419680","title":"Italian Horror Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements 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","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408832602455,"sku":"9781474419680","price":26.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474419680.jpg?v=1730504374","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/italian-horror-cinema-9781474419680","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}