Sevastakis, M:  Giallo Cinema and Its Folktale Roots di Michael Sevastakis edito da McFarland
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Sevastakis, M: Giallo Cinema and Its Folktale Roots

A Critical Study Of 10 Films, 1962-1987

Editore:

McFarland

EAN:

9780786495016

ISBN:

0786495014

Pagine:
240
Formato:
Paperback
Lingua:
Inglese
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Descrizione Sevastakis, M: Giallo Cinema and Its Folktale Roots

The Italian giallo film genre--the equivalent of the American whodunit but incorporating extreme violence and sex--was based on popular British and American fiction of the 30s and 40s, adapted to the explicitly liberal filmmaking of 1970s and 1980s Europe. Seldom released in American theaters, these films were usually distributed as redacted bootlegs, awaiting digital technology to be restored to their original content and pristine visual form. This book analyzes the censored sex and violence of giallo films, finding in them an inherent beauty and tracing their literary antecedents to the elements of the fairy tale as described by Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp. Each chapter covers a film and its director, from 1962 to 1987. The author argues that despite their formulaic production and designation as ""Euro-sleaze,"" these films are works of individuality and artistic virtue.

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