giallo fever

Neo-realist films had mixed fortunes at the Italian box-office. Rome Open City was the most successful film of 1945, with takings of 25,476,...

Deep Red/Profondo Rosso Argento's first three films were distributed internationally in versions identical to the Italian one but for th...

Fascist aesthetics emphasised spectacle. As such, neo-realism can be understood as inherently anti-fascist. This however, posed a problem fo...

Introduction In this section I discuss a number of the major contextual features of the Italian cinema in the post-war period, including the...

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[ Four Flies on Grey Velvet ] The film's excessive approach, meanwhile, is first signalled by the elaborate proto-music video credits se...

While characterising Argento's cinema in the whole as one of excess, Maitland McDonagh (1992) argues that the concept only becomes truly...