Dario Argento 1st Edition Edition by Andrew Cooper ISBN 978-0252078743 0252078748

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ISBN 10:  0252078748

ISBN 13:  978-0252078743

Author: L. Andrew Cooper 

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.

Table of contents: 

1. Acknowledgments

2. Dario Argento: Doing Violence on Film

3. Against Criticism: Opera and The Stendhal Syndrome

4. Opera

5. The Stendhal Syndrome

6. Against Interpretation: The First Five Gialli

7. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

8. The Cat o’ Nine Tails

9. Four Flies on Grey Velvet

10. Deep Red

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