Gheorghiu's best-known book depicts the plight of a naive young farmhand, Johann Moritz, under German, Soviet and American occupation of Central Europe. Johann is sent to ...
This is one of those virulent gut-clenchers which you read, ineluctably, and which belongs roughly in the category of carno (epitomizing violence -- an alternate to porno ...
Summer 1946. World War Two has just come to an end and there’s a yearning for renewal. A man in his thirties is sailing on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, hoping to put o...
Un personaggio inconsueto lascia la vita di provincia sulle rive del lago nativo per avventurarsi a Parigi. Le inquietudini, le aspirazioni, i giochi e gli amori del grand...
Tino, appena uscito dal collegio, giunge a Torino per gli esami di maturità, accolto con cerimoniosa letizia nella signorile villa degli zii. Ma non ci vuole molto prima c...
Siamo nell'Italia cattolica e bigotta degli anni quaranta. Ju, un ragazzino di una decina di anni, è segretamente innamorato della disinibita cugina Nenè. Con lei il bambi...
"I vampiri" (1957) di Riccardo Freda e Mario Bava è comunemente ritenuto il primo horror italiano. Lo stupore dei critici, lo scarso successo di pubblico, l'ambientazione ...
La Repubblica napoletana del 1799 ripropone il libro di Anna Maria Rao pubblicato nel 1997 per la collana dei tascabili economici della Newton & Compton. Il testo è corred...
The history of Italian cinema includes, in addition to the renowned auteurs, a number of peculiar and lesser-known filmmakers.
While their artistry was often plagued wi...
Do not believe in what you think you see. Creeping mist, the milky fog of terror that can obscure untold dangers and shroud the confines of limited studio sets. Splashes o...
There is no cinema with such effect as that of the hallucinatory Italian horror film. From Riccardo Freda's I Vampiri in 1956 to Il Cartaio in 2004, this work recounts the...
Covering every Italian Spaghetti Western--mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly--this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the implausi...
The giallo (plural gialli) is the Italian version of crime and detective films. The name literally means "yellow", and refers to the color of the covers of a collection of...
Bloodstained Narratives: The Giallo Film in Italy and Abroad
Matthew Edwards, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
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(0)The giallo (yellow) film cycle, characterized by its bloody murders and blending of high art and cinematic sleaze, rose to prominence in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. Begi...
Italian sword and sandal burst upon worldwide screens in 1957/8 with the release of Steve Reeves’ The Labors of Hercules/Hercules. Eight years and over 300 films later, pe...
De Ben-Hur à Gladiator, le péplum de A à Z.Qui n’a jamais désiré connaître la beauté de Cléopâtre ou le charme mortel de Messaline, la sauvagerie des combats de gladiateur...
Le péplum est un cinéma de mauvais genre.Il raconte des histoires qui se déroulent en des temps mythiques ou lointains. Il chante les exploits d’héros bodybuildés et d’hér...
After the decline of the Spaghetti Western, crime films were the most popular, profitable and controversial genre in 1970s Italy. The product of a country plagued with vio...
The first horror film of Italy’s cinematic sound era, I VAMPIRI is a glorious, Gothic statement that would open the doors for so much to come. Directed—for the most part—b...
Marco Ferreri (1928-1997) was one of Italian cinema's boldest auteurs. A maverick personality, he worked with some of the most popular actors of the time (Marcello Mastroi...