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Book Title
Dolce Morte : Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
Publication Name
La Dolce Morte
Title
La Dolce Morte
EAN
9780810858701
ISBN
9780810858701
Publisher
Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
Format
Perfect
Release Year
2006
Release Date
02/10/2006
Item Height
0.4in
Item Length
9.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
10.5 Oz
Author
Mikel J. Koven
Language
English
Subtitle
Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
ISBN-10
0810858703
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Genre
Performing Arts
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Film / Genres / Horror, Film / Genres / Crime, Film / History & Criticism
Number of Pages
206 Pages

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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.

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Publisher
Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0810858703
ISBN-13
9780810858701
eBay Product ID (ePID)
53958839

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Book Title
Dolce Morte : Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
Author
Mikel J. Koven
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
Film / Genres / Horror, Film / Genres / Crime, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Performing Arts
Number of Pages
206 Pages

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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
10.5 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.D4k68 2006
Reviews
...this is a serious contribution to film studies. It opens a side of Italian cinema that is rarely studied. Recommended., La Dolce Morte is an informed and engaging examination of neglected and marginalized films that purposely provokes readers to re-examine biases against the giallo., "Giallo," Italian for "yellow," is applied to a vernacular film genre (e.g., Sergio Martino's Torso, 1973) based on mystery novels with bright yellow covers that an Italian publisher has been producing since the 1920s. In the context of psychodynamics and Italian audiences, Koven (film and television studies, U. of Wales, Aberystwyth) explores themes including the outsider, sexually-driven murder, the amateur detective's role, and a view of these films from Pasolini's theory of a "cinema of poetry." He concludes that gialli, like other horror cinema, reflect modernity's ambivalence toward both traditional folk beliefs and science., ...a carefully constructed presentation and discussion of one of the most important phenomena in modern cinema., Koven's well-organized catalog of the subgenre's characteristics makes his book a valuable reference tool as well as an incisive critical study., Koven's study is highly detailed and wide ranging. Koven clearly adores his chosen subject and explores it with an eye to accessibility--he often writes wittily but always lucidly--and these are reasons why the book is so engaging.
Table of Content
Part 1 Preface Part 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 1. What is Giallo? Chapter 4 2. Toward an Understanding of Vernacular Cinema Chapter 5 3. Space and Place in Italian Giallo Cinema: The Ambivalence of Modernity Chapter 6 4. Murder and Other Sexual Perversions Chapter 7 5. Watching the Detectives: Amateur Detectives and the Giallo as Detective Cinema Chapter 8 6. The Killer's Identity Chapter 9 7. "Weird Science of the Most Egregious Kind": The Ambivalence of Belief in the Giallo Film Part 10 8. "A Perverse Sublime": Excess and the Set Piece in the Giallo Part 11 9. The Giallo as Cinema of Poetry Part 12 10. From Giallo to Slasher Part 13 Filmography Part 14 Bibliography Part 15 Index Part 16 About the Author
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2006-015624
Dewey Decimal
791.43/6556
Dewey Edition
22

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