Stefano Baschiera (editor) - Italian Horror Cinema

ITALIAN HORROR CINEMA

ITALIAN HORROR CINEMA

Edited by Stefano Baschiera and Russ Hunter

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editorial matter and organisation Stefano Baschiera and Russ Hunter, 2016
the chapters their several authors, 2016

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CONTENTS

Introduction
Stefano Baschiera and Russ Hunter

1. Preferisco linferno: early Italian horror cinema
Russ Hunter

2. Domestic films made for export: modes of production of the 1960s Italian horror film
Francesco Di Chiara

3. The 1980s Italian horror cinema of imitation: the good, the ugly and the sequel
Stefano Baschiera

4. Knowing the unknown beyond: Italianate and Italian horror cinema in the twenty-first century
Johnny Walker

5. Bavaesque: the making of Mario Bava as Italian horror auteur
Peter Hutchings

6. The Argento Syndrome: aesthetics of horror
Marcia Landy

7. Scrap metal, stains, clogged drains: Argentos refuse and its refusals
Karl Schoonover

8. The giallo/slasher landscape: Ecologia del delitto, Friday the 13th and subtractive spectatorship
Adam Lowenstein

9. Kings of terror, geniuses of crime: giallo cinema and fumetti neri
Leon Hunt

10. Political memory in the Italian hinterland: locating the rural giallo
Austin Fisher

11. The horror of progressive rock: Goblin and horror soundtracks
Craig Hatch

12. The only monsters here are the filmmakers: animal cruelty and death in Italian cannibal films
Mark Bernard

13. Italian horror cinema and Italian film journals of the 1970s
Paolo Noto

FIGURES

CONTRIBUTORS

Stefano Baschiera is Lecturer in Film Studies at Queens University Belfast. His work on European cinema and film industries has been published in a variety of edited collections and journals including Film International, Bianco e Nero, Italian Studies, New Review of Film and Television Studies.

Mark Bernard is an Instructor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Selling the Splat Pack: The DVD Revolution and the American Horror Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) and co-author (with Cynthia Baron and Diane Carson) of Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation (2014). He has written about food in horror cinema and race in serial killer cinema, among other topics. He is currently writing about acting and stardom in horror cinema and television.

Francesco Di Chiara is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the eCampus University (Novedrate, Italy). He is part of the editorial board of the international journal of film studies Cinma & Cie. His research interests include (but are not limited to) Italian genre cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s, the European film industry, and Italian film co-productions. He is the author of I tre volti dellorrore, Il cinema horror italiano 19471965 (2009), Generi e industria cinematografica in Italia: il caso Titanus 19491964 (2013) and Peplum: il cinema italiano alle prese con il mondo antico (2016).

Austin Fisher is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Bournemouth University, author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western, editor of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads (Edinburgh University Press) and founding co-editor of Bloomsburys Global Exploitation Cinemas book series. He is also founding Co-Chair of the SCMS Transnational Cinemas Scholarly Interest Group, serves on the editorial boards of the [in]Transition and Transnational Cinemas journals, and is founder of the Spaghetti Cinema festival.

Craig Hatch is a PhD candidate specialising in film sound and Asian cinema at the University of Southampton. He currently runs www.horrorjapan.com, a project that aims to review and collate media from all aspects of Japanese horror culture.

Leon Hunt is Senior Lecturer in Screen Media at Brunel University. He is the author of British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation (1998), Kung Fu Cult Masters: From Bruce Lee to Crouching Tiger (2003), The League of Gentlemen (2008), Cult British TV Comedy: From Reeves & Mortimer to Psychoville (2013), and co-editor of East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film (2008) and Screening the Undead: Vampires and Zombies in Film and Television (2014).

Russ Hunter is Senior Lecturer in Film & Television at the University of Northumbria. His research is focused upon Italian genre cinema, critical reception, European horror cinema and genre film festivals. His monograph, A History of European Horror Cinema, is due to be published with Edinburgh University Press in 2016.

Peter Hutchings is Professor of Film Studies at Northumbria University. He is the author of Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film, Terence Fisher, The British Film Guide to Dracula, The Horror Film and The Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema, as well as co-editor of The Film Studies Reader. He has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters on horror cinema, British film and television, science fiction cinema and television, and the thriller.

Marcia Landy is Distinguished Professor Emerita in English/Film Studies with a Secondary appointment in French and Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. Her books include Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema 19311943 (1986); Film Politics, and Gramsci (1994); Cinematic Uses of the Past (1996); The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality in Italian Cinema (1998); Italian Cinema (2000); The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media (2000); Stardom Italian Style: in Italian Cinema (2008) and Cinema and Counter-History (2015). Her essays appear in anthologies on Italian cinema, British cinema, history in and of film, film genres (Western, biopic, horror and comedy), melodrama, fascism and film.

Adam Lowenstein is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also directs the Film Studies Program. He is the author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film (2005) and Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media (2015).

Paolo Noto is currently a fixed-term lecturer at the University of Bologna. His main research interests are Intertextuality and film, genre theory and history of post-war Italian. His publications include Il cinema neorealista, a reader on Italian neorealism co-edited with Francesco Pitassio (2010), and