Cooper, L. Andrew
Dario Argento
- ISBN 13:
- 9780252078743
- author:
- Cooper, L. Andrew
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2012
- Pages:
- 216
- Dimensions:
- 1.8 x 13.5 x 20.5 cm
- Genre:
- Biography,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Dario Argento: A Director of Excess Italian film director Dario Argento is renowned for his work in two distinct genres: crime thriller and supernatural horror. His films, inspired by lurid yellow-covered murder-mystery novels, follow the suspense tradition of hard-boiled American detective fiction while incorporating baroque scenes of violence and excess. This book offers a unique analysis of Argento's oeuvre, exploring controversies and theories about his films' reflections on sadism, gender, sexuality, psychoanalysis, aestheticism, and genre. By examining individual images and sequences as well as larger narrative structures, the author reveals how Argento's stylistic excesses offer productive resistance to the cinema's visual, narrative, and political norms. Through this critical lens, Cooper sheds new light on Argento's place within a tradition of aestheticized horror that includes notable figures such as De Sade, De Quincey, Poe, and Hitchcock.
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