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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...
![Roberto Curti - I Vampiri [Midnight Movie Monograph]](https://s1.livelib.ru/boocover/1013686339/200x305/755f/Roberto_Curti__I_Vampiri_Midnight_Movie_Monograph.jpg)
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...
From its birth in 1913 to its abolition in 2021, film censorship marked the history of Italian cinema, and its evolution mirrored the social, political, and cultural trava...
He’s remembered by connoisseurs of Italian cult cinema for his notorious cannibal epics like Cannibal Ferox and Eaten Alive!, as well as his high-octane crime films like A...
Since 1929, with the release of a popular book series with bright yellow covers, the Italian word "giallo" (yellow) has come to define the whole spectrum of mystery and de...
The Italian Gothic horror genre underwent many changes in the 1980s, with masters such as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda dying or retiring and young filmmakers such as Lamb...
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 female...
Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace (1964) is a legendary title, and is commonly considered as the archetypal giallo. A murder mystery about a faceless and menacing killer s...
Gordiano Lupi completa la sua opera (iniziata con il primo volume, Storia della commedia sexy all'italiana. Da Sergio Martino a Nello Rossati) e indaga a fondo un periodo ...
In an eclectic career spanning four decades, Italian director Riccardo Freda (1909-1999) produced films of remarkable technical skill and powerful visual style, including ...
La commedia sexy all'italiana (detta anche scollacciata o erotica) è un sottogenere della commedia all'italiana. Imperversò dagli anni '70 fino ai primi anni '80 quando gr...
