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Broken Mirrors, Broken Minds

Author : Maitland McDonagh
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452915377
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Broken Mirrors, Broken Minds written by Maitland McDonagh and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian filmmaker Dario Argento's horror films have been described as a blend of Alfred Hitchcock and George Romero?psychologically rich, colorful, and at times garish, excelling at taking the best elements of the splatter and exploitation genres and laying them over a dark undercurrent of human emotions and psyches. Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds, which dissects such Argento cult films as Two Evil Eyes, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Suspiria, and Deep Red, includes a new introduction discussing Argento's most recent films, from The Stendahl Syndrome to Mother of Tears; an updated filmography; and an interview with Argento.

Dark Thoughts of a Broken Mind

Author : Markus Darkscribe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483695611
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Dark Thoughts of a Broken Mind written by Markus Darkscribe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Thoughts & A Broken Mind Another night another plight. even it the dark corners i don't feel right. I guess it's best to stay alone and live what's left all on my own. Just another recluse. another broken soul some human refuge to be put into a hole.

Broken minds

Author : A. C. Hurts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783959574754
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Broken minds written by A. C. Hurts and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Giallo Cinema and Its Folktale Roots

Author : Michael Sevastakis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786495014
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Giallo Cinema and Its Folktale Roots written by Michael Sevastakis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Horror Reader

Author : Ken Gelder
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415213554
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Horror Reader written by Ken Gelder and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Horror Reader brings together 29 key articles to explore the enduring resonance of horror in popular culture.

Agent-Based Computational Modelling

Author : Francesco C. Billari
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9783790816402
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Agent-Based Computational Modelling written by Francesco C. Billari and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006-03-13 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book describes the methodology to set up agent-based models and to study emerging patterns in complex adaptive systems resulting from multi-agent interaction. It offers the application of agent-based models in demography, social and economic sciences and environmental sciences. Examples include population dynamics, evolution of social norms, communication structures, patterns in eco-systems and socio-biology, natural resource management, spread of diseases and development processes. It presents and combines different approaches how to implement agent-based computational models and tools in an integrative manner that can be extended to other cases.

Fight Your Own War

Author : Jennifer Wallis
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1909394416
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Fight Your Own War written by Jennifer Wallis and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power electronics is a genre of industrial or ‘noise’ music that utilises feedback and synthesizers to produce an intense, loud, challenging sound. To match this sonic excess, power electronics also relies heavily upon extreme thematic and visual content — whether in lyrics, album art, or live performance. The result is a violent, ecstatic, and potentially consciousness-altering spectacle, and a genre that often invites strong reactions from both listeners and critics. FIGHT YOUR OWN WAR is the first English-language book primarily devoted to power electronics. Written by artists, fans, and critics from around the world, its essays and reviews explore the current state of the genre, from early development through to live performance, listener experience, artist motivation, gender and subcultures such as ‘Japanoise’. In considering this ‘spectacle’ of noise, how far can we simply label power electronics as a genre of shock tactics or of transgression for transgression’s sake?

Film Out of Bounds

Author : Matthew Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147660780X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Film Out of Bounds written by Matthew Edwards and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operating outside the commercial boundaries of Hollywood cinema, alternative and independent filmmakers have much to offer the discriminating viewer. Yet they struggle for a place in the popular culture, and even more for recognition by the scholarly community. The specific aim of this book is to provide much-needed critical examination of titles, particularly those by British filmmakers. In-depth commentary from such acclaimed writers as Maitland McDonagh, Jasper Sharp, Johannes Schönherr and Marcus Stiglegger considers filmmakers who work at the very heart of the independent medium, giving the reader specific insight into alternate cinema and the struggles its filmmakers endure. Featured are interviews with both rising and established filmmakers, including the infamous Guy Maddin and Herschell Gordon Lewis. Finally, this collection of interviews and essays boasts a 20th anniversary retrospective on the British cult classic The Company of the Wolves, complete with an exclusive interview with director Neil Jordan.

Murder Made in Italy

Author : Ellen Nerenberg
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253012422
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Murder Made in Italy written by Ellen Nerenberg and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of three high-profile Italian murder cases, how they were covered by the media, and what it all says about Italian culture. Looking at media coverage of three very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy explores the cultural issues raised by the murders and how they reflect developments in Italian civil society over the past twenty years. Providing detailed descriptions of each murder, investigation, and court case, Ellen Nerenberg addresses the perception of lawlessness in Italy, the country’s geography of crime, and the generalized fear for public safety among the Italian population. Nerenberg examines the fictional and nonfictional representations of these crimes through the lenses of moral panic, media spectacle, true crime writing, and the abject body. The worldwide publicity given the recent case of Amanda Knox, the American student tried for murder in a Perugia court, once more drew attention to crime and punishment in Italy and is the subject of the epilogue. “A fantastic array of literary, cinematic, and oral narratives.” —Stefania Lucamante, Catholic University of America “Original, engaging, and thought-provoking . . . quite unlike any other existing book in Italian cultural and media studies.” —Ruth Glynn, University of Bristol

The Dread of Difference

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292772459
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Dread of Difference written by Barry Keith Grant and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It's rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now this new edition expands the already comprehensive coverage of gender in the horror film with new essays on recent developments such as the Hostel series and torture porn. Informative and enlightening, this updated classic is an essential reference for fans and students of horror movies."—Stephen Prince, editor of The Horror Film and author of Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality "An impressive array of distinguished scholars . . . gazes deeply into the darkness and then forms a Dionysian chorus reaffirming that sexuality and the monstrous are indeed mated in many horror films."—Choice "An extremely useful introduction to recent thinking about gender issues within this genre."—Film Theory

World Cinema through Global Genres

Author : William V. Costanzo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118713109
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book World Cinema through Global Genres written by William V. Costanzo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Cinema through Global Genres introduces the complex forces of global filmmaking using the popular concept of film genre. The cluster-based organization allows students to acquire a clear understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world. Innovative pedagogical approach that uses genres to teach the more unfamiliar subject of world cinema A cluster-based organization provides a solid framework for students to acquire a sharper understanding of core issues that apply to all films around the world A “deep focus” section in each chapter gives students information and insights about important regions of filmmaking (India, China, Japan, and Latin America) that tend to be underrepresented in world cinema classes Case studies allow students to focus on important and accessible individual films that exemplify significant traditions and trends A strong foundation chapter reviews key concepts and vocabulary for understanding film as an art form, a technology, a business, an index of culture, a social barometer, and a political force. The engaging style and organization of the book make it a compelling text for both world cinema and film genre courses

Italian Giallo in Film and Television

Author : Roberto Curti
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476646457
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Italian Giallo in Film and Television written by Roberto Curti and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the release in 1929 of a popular book series with bright yellow covers, the Italian word giallo (yellow) has come to define a whole spectrum of mystery and detective fiction and films. Although most English speakers associate the term giallo with the violent and erotic thrillers popular in the 1960s and 1970s from directors like Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and others, the term encompasses a wide range of Italian media such as mysteries, thrillers and detective stories--even comedies and political pamphlets. As films like Blood and Black Lace (1964) and Deep Red (1975) have received international acclaim, giallo is a fluid and dynamic genre that has evolved throughout the decades. This book examines the many facets of the giallo genre --narrative, style, themes, and influences. It explores Italian films, made-for-TV films and miniseries from the dawn of sound cinema to the present, discussing their impact on society, culture and mores.

Suspiria

Author : Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800346824
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Suspiria written by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the complex ways that Sergio Argento weaves together light, sound, and cinema history to construct one of the most breathtaking horror movies of all time, a film as fascinating as it is ultimately unfathomable.

Dario Argento

Author : L. Andrew Cooper
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094387
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Dario Argento written by L. Andrew Cooper and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commanding a cult following among horror fans, Italian film director Dario Argento is best known for his work in two closely related genres, the crime thriller and supernatural horror, as well as his influence on modern horror and slasher movies. In his four decades of filmmaking, Argento has displayed a commitment to innovation, from his directorial debut with 1970's suspense thriller The Bird with the Crystal Plumage to 2009's Giallo. His films, like the lurid yellow-covered murder-mystery novels they are inspired by, follow the suspense tradition of hard-boiled American detective fiction while incorporating baroque scenes of violence and excess. While considerations of Argento's films often describe them as irrational nightmares, L. Andrew Cooper uses controversies and theories about the films' reflections on sadism, gender, sexuality, psychoanalysis, aestheticism, and genre to declare the anti-rational logic of Argento's oeuvre. Approaching the films as rhetorical statements made through extremes of sound and vision, Cooper places Argento in a tradition of aestheticized horror that includes De Sade, De Quincey, Poe, and Hitchcock. Analyzing individual images and sequences as well as larger narrative structures, he reveals how the director's stylistic excesses, often condemned for glorifying misogyny and other forms of violence, offer productive resistance to the cinema's visual, narrative, and political norms.

Zombie Culture

Author : Shawn McIntosh
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810860430
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Zombie Culture written by Shawn McIntosh and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have zombies resonated so pervasively in the popular imagination and in media, especially films? Why have they proved to be one of the most versatile and popular monster types in the growing video game industry? What makes zombies such widespread symbols of horror and dread, and how have portrayals of zombies in movies changed and evolved to fit contemporary fears, anxieties, and social issues? Zombies have held a unique place in film and popular culture throughout most of the 20th century. Rare in that this enduring monster type originated in non-European folk culture rather than the Gothic tradition from which monsters like vampires and werewolves have emerged, zombies have in many ways superseded these Gothic monsters in popular entertainment and the public imagination and have increasingly been used in discussions ranging from the philosophy of mind to computer lingo to the business press. Zombie Culture brings together scholars from a variety of fields, including cinema studies, popular culture, and video game studies, who have examined the living dead through a variety of lenses. By looking at how portrayals of zombies have evolved from their folkloric roots and entered popular culture, readers will gain deeper insights into what zombies mean in terms of the public psyche, how they represent societal fears, and how their evolving portrayals continue to reflect underlying beliefs of The Other, contagion, and death.

Women Make Horror

Author : Alison Peirse
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978805136
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Women Make Horror written by Alison Peirse and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the the 2021 Best Edited Collection Award from BAFTSS Winner of the 2021 British Fantasy Award in Best Non-Fiction Finalist for the 2020 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction Runner-Up for Book of the Year in the 19th Annual Rondo Halton Classic Horror Awards “But women were never out there making horror films, that’s why they are not written about – you can’t include what doesn’t exist.” “Women are just not that interested in making horror films.” This is what you get when you are a woman working in horror, whether as a writer, academic, festival programmer, or filmmaker. These assumptions are based on decades of flawed scholarly, critical, and industrial thinking about the genre. Women Make Horror sets right these misconceptions. Women have always made horror. They have always been an audience for the genre, and today, as this book reveals, women academics, critics, and filmmakers alike remain committed to a film genre that offers almost unlimited opportunities for exploring and deconstructing social and cultural constructions of gender, femininity, sexuality, and the body. Women Make Horror explores narrative and experimental cinema; short, anthology, and feature filmmaking; and offers case studies of North American, Latin American, European, East Asian, and Australian filmmakers, films, and festivals. With this book we can transform how we think about women filmmakers and genre.

Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress

Author : Xavier Mendik
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443882887
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress written by Xavier Mendik and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, there has been an explosion of critical interest in the icons, genres and traditions of 1970s Italian cult film. Thanks to the international success of directors such as Dario Argento and Sergio Martino, and the influential giallo (thriller) cycle in which they worked, these unconventional and often controversial films are now impacting on new generations of filmmakers, scholars and moviegoers alike. Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress: The Golden Age of Italian Cult Cinema 1970–1985 considers the current interest in specific Italian directors and cult genres, exploring the social, political and cultural factors that spawned a decade of cinema dominated by extreme, yet stylish, images of sexuality and violence. Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress situates the explosion of 1970s Italian cult ‘excess’ against the toxic backdrop of political violence and terrorist activity that produced shocking images of carnage and crime during this period. The volume also considers why the iconography of the sexually liberated female became recast as a symbol of fear and violation in a range of Italian cult film narratives. In addition, the book also analyses how longstanding regional distinctions between Italy’s urban North and the much maligned rural South fed into sex and death cycles produced between 1970 and 1985. Bodies of Desire and Bodies in Distress profiles leading 1970s Italian directors and performers including Aristide Massaccesi (Joe D’Amato), Laura Gemser, and Dario Argento (who also provides an interview discussing his work and 1970s Italian society). The volume also provides case-studies of the giallo cycle, rape and revenge dramas, the Italian rogue cop series, post-apocalypse films, barbarian movies, and sex comedy formats. By considering the icons and genres from the golden age of Italian cult film alongside the crucial social and sexual tensions that influenced their creation, this book will be of interest to film scholars and cult movie fans alike.