La dolce morte : vernacular cinema and the Italian giallo film
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (x, 195 pages)
9781461664161, 9780810858701, 1461664160, 0810858703
815281566
What is Giallo?
Toward an understanding of vernacular cinema
Space and place in Italian Giallo cinema : the ambivalence of modernity
Murder and other sexual perversions
Watching the detectives : amateur detectives and the Giallo as detective cinema
The killer's identity
"Weird science of the most egregious kind" : the ambivalence of belief in the Giallo film
"A perverse sublime" : excess and the set piece in the Giallo
The Giallo as cinema of poetry
From Giallo to slasher
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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