Critical perspectives on Dario Argento / edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns.

Other author Pagnoni Berns, Fernando Gabriel, 1975
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
Descriptionpages cm.
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SeriesCritical perspectives on contemporary directors
Contents Eyes (propped) wide open : predatory capitalism as sadistic gendered violence in Argento's Opera and Four flies on grey velvet / Eric Brinkman -- Family psychology, mental illness, and social stigma in Trauma / Andrew Burt -- Blindness, aesthetics, and radical contingency in Dario Argento's The cat o' nine tails -- (1971) and Dark glasses (2022) / L. Andrew Cooper -- 'Real dead bodies' : the death of American authorship in Dario Argento's Tenebre / Derek -- Graf -- Violence in the streets : Italy's anni di piombo through La porta sul buio / Jorge Traversa and Guillermo Link -- Has the yellow fever broken : Dario Argento and the 21st century giallo / Mateja Đedović -- Dario Argento's Apollonian-Dionysian dialectic / Gavin Hurley -- The signification of murder in Dario Argento's Sleepless (2001) / Sean Woodard -- Mother's mayhem : abjection and neurotic surplus repression in Dario Argento's La terza madre / Casey Cockrum and Antonio Sanna -- Vulnerabilities of the super-natural : plasticity in Dario Argento's Phenomena / Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K Suresh -- Beelzebabes : an ontological interrogation of the nonhuman in Argento's Phenomena / Molly Follette' -- The animal turn in Phenomena, Il fantasma dell'opera, Dracula 3D, 'Jenifer' and 'Pelts,' Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Art cinema and the grotesque : Dario Argento's Le cinque giornate / Clayton Dillard -- Trauma, metadaptation, and fidelity's recuperative claim in Suspiria (1977 and 2018) / Jamie L. McDaniel -- Galleria oscura : paintings in Dario Argento's Giallo films / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Virtual/real bodies in Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento's Demoni / Emiliano Aguilar -- The fourth mother : postmodernism, metacinema, and autobiography in Luigi Cozzi's The black cat / Felipe M. Guerra -- Iconic personality : the public image of Dario Argento / Marco Chiaretti.
Abstract "This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and up-to-date analysis of the entire filmography of Dario Argento, one of the most renowned directors from the world of Euro-Horror, to illuminate and demonstrate the lasting contributions and influence of his perspective and works on the horror genre"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2025034066
ISBN9798216382768 paperback
ISBN9781666973648 hardback
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