Blood and Black Lace

Blood and Black Lace
Author: Roberto Curti
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2020-01-31
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1800347502

Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace (1964) is commonly considered the archetypal giallo. This book examines its main narrative and stylistic aspects, including the groundbreaking prominence of violence and sadism and its use of color and lighting, as well as Bava’s irreverent approach to genre and handling of the audience’s expectations.


Blood and Black Lace

Blood and Black Lace
Author: Adrian Luther-Smith
Publisher: Turnaround
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1999
Genre: Erotic films
ISBN: 9780953326112

Style, sex and savagery are the main ingredients of Italian giallo cinema, a highly salacious art form which thrives on fetishist images of beautiful, scantily-clad females being menaced by knife-wielding maniacs - often for the most obscure of motives! Illustrated in full-colour throughout, this exhaustive guide to the genre features full reviews, cast lists, credit information on over two hundred giallo movies, many of which have never been listed in any other movieguide.


Mario Bava

Mario Bava
Author: Tim Lucas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1125
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780963375612


Giallo!

Giallo!
Author: Alexia Kannas
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2020-11-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1438480342

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.


Darker Than Love

Darker Than Love
Author: Kristina Lloyd
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780352332790

It's 1875 and the morals of Queen Victoria have no hold over London's debauched elite. Young and naive Clarissa is eager to meet Lord Marldon, the man to whom she is betrothed. She knows he is handsome, dark and sophisticated. He is, in fact, depraved and with a taste for sexual excess.


Euro Horror

Euro Horror
Author: Ian Olney
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0253006589

Beginning in the 1950s, "Euro Horror" movies materialized in astonishing numbers from Italy, Spain, and France and popped up in the US at rural drive-ins and urban grindhouse theaters such as those that once dotted New York's Times Square. Gorier, sexier, and stranger than most American horror films of the time, they were embraced by hardcore fans and denounced by critics as the worst kind of cinematic trash. In this volume, Olney explores some of the most popular genres of Euro Horror cinema—including giallo films, named for the yellow covers of Italian pulp fiction, the S&M horror film, and cannibal and zombie films—and develops a theory that explains their renewed appeal to audiences today.


La Dolce Morte

La Dolce Morte
Author: Mikel J. Koven
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2006-10-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1461664160

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." According to Koven, to look at a film from a vernacular perspective removes the assumptions about what constitutes a "good" film and how a particular film is in some way "artistic." In La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film, Koven explores the history and evolution of this aspect of cinema, and places these films within the context of Italian popular filmmaking. He addresses various themes, motifs, and tropes in these films: their use of space, the murders, the role of the detective, the identity of the killer, issues of belief, excess, and the set-piece. In addition to being the first academic study of the giallo film in English, this book surveys more than fifty films of this subgenre. In addition to filmmakers like Mario Bava and Dario Argento, Koven also looks at the films of Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Pupi Avati, Umberto Lenzi, and others. In all, the works of twenty-five different filmmakers are considered in this book. Also explored are the inter-relationships between these films: how one influences others, how certain filmmakers take ideas and build off of them, and how those ideas are further transformed by other filmmakers. Koven also explores the impact of the giallo on the later North American slasher genre.


Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2005

Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2005
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: Signet Book
Total Pages: 1637
Release: 2004-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780451212658

Offers readers a comprehensive reference to the world of film, including thousands of alphabetically-arranged movie title entries containing plot summaries, along with information on performers, ratings, and running times.


The Haunted World of Mario Bava

The Haunted World of Mario Bava
Author: Troy Howarth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-05-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781936168453

The Haunted World of Mario Bava has now been updated, revised and expanded by author Troy Howarth to give a better overview of Bava's remarkable legacy as a director and "cinema magician."