Author : TROY HOWARTH.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1644300990
SPLINTERED VISIONS
TROY HOWARTH.
Splintered Visions Lucio Fulci And His Films
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Splintered Visions Lucio Fulci and His Films
Howarth Troy
Author : Howarth Troy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1936168537
Splintered Visions Lucio Fulci and His Films by Howarth Troy Pdf
For many horror film fans, the name Lucio Fulci conjures images of gore and depravity. Derided by critics as a hack and an imitator and lionized by others as the "Godfather of Gore," Fulci remains a polarizing and controversial figure. However, many fans are unaware of the scope and breadth of his filmography. From his early days writing material for popular comics like Totò and Franco and Ciccio to directing films in such genres as the musical and the Spaghetti Western, Lucio Fulci was a filmmaker of great diversity. When he attained international notoriety with the release of his gory epic ZOMBIE, Fulci already had years of experience in the film industry; that film's success established him as one of Italy's premier masters of the macabre and he would continue to shock and delight fans until shrinking budgets and failing health began to compromise some of his later work. When he died in 1996, he was on the cusp of a major comeback, but in the years following his death the cult surrounding his legacy has continued to grow. Unfortunately, most studies of Fulci and his work have elected to focus only on a small part of his career. SPLINTERED VISIONS changes all of that by providing an in-depth exploration of Fulci's filmography, beginning with his work as a screenwriter and extending through all of his films as a director. The popular horror films and thrillers are given ample coverage, but the lesser-known works are finally put into their proper context. Author Howarth provides a detailed portrait of a complex man using newly conducted interviews with actors such as Richard Johnson and Franco Nero, which allows the reader a sense of who the director was and how he worked. The end result is the most comprehensive overview of Fulci, the man and Fulci, the filmmaker that has been published in English--making SPLINTERED VISIONS a cause for celebration among serious Fulci fans. The book is also lavishly illustrated with a number of rare stills, posters and advertising materials.
Beyond Terror
Stephen Thrower
Author : Stephen Thrower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1903254906
Beyond Terror by Stephen Thrower Pdf
Italy's Master of the Macabre Lucio Fulci is celebrated in this lavishly illustrated in-depth study of his extraordinary films. From horror masterpieces like The Beyond and Zombie Flesh-Eaters to erotic thrillers like One On Top of the Other and A Lizard in a Woman's Skin; from his earliest days as director of manic Italian comedies to his notoriety as purveyor of extreme violence in the terrifying slasher epic The New York Ripper, his whole career is explored. Supernatural themes and weird logic collide with flesh-ripping gore to breathtaking effect. Bleak horrors are transformed into bloody poetry - Fulci's loving camera technique, and the decayed splendour of his art design, make the films more than just a gross endurance test. Lucio Fulci built up a fanatical following, who at last will have another chance to own this epic book - five years in the making - which is the ultimate testament to 'The Godfather of Gore'. Since its first publication in 1999, Beyond Terror has sold out three print runs, and continues to be one of the most frequently requested FAB Press reprints. Without doubt, by far and away the largest collection of Fulci posters, stills, press-books and lobby cards ever seen together in print. We have scoured the Earth to find the most stunning, rare and eye-catching Fulci images. Out of print for ten years, it's back again in 2018, bigger and better than ever! Featuring a foreword by Fulci's devoted daughter Antonella, and produced with her blessing and full co-operation, this book is quite simply the last word on Fulci. His whole cinematic career is studied in obsessive depth. Huge supplementary appendices make this volume essential for all serious students of the Italian horror movie scene.
The Haunted World of Mario Bava
Troy Howarth
Author : Troy Howarth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1936168456
The Haunted World of Mario Bava by Troy Howarth Pdf
The Haunted World of Mario Bava has now been updated, revised and expanded by author Troy Howarth to give a better overview of Bava's remarkable legacy as a director and "cinema magician."
Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989
Roberto Curti
Author : Roberto Curti
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476635248
Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989 by Roberto Curti Pdf
The Italian Gothic horror genre underwent many changes in the 1980s, with masters such as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda dying or retiring and young filmmakers such as Lamberto Bava (Macabro, Demons) and Michele Soavi (The Church) surfacing. Horror films proved commercially successful in the first half of the decade thanks to Dario Argento (both as director and producer) and Lucio Fulci, but the rise of made-for-TV products has resulted in the gradual disappearance of genre products from the big screen. This book examines all the Italian Gothic films of the 1980s. It includes previously unpublished trivia and production data taken from official archive papers, original scripts and interviews with filmmakers, actors and scriptwriters. The entries include a complete cast and crew list, plot summary, production history and analysis. Two appendices list direct-to-video releases and made-for-TV films.
Spaghetti Westerns
Aliza S. Wong
Author : Aliza S. Wong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442269040
Spaghetti Westerns by Aliza S. Wong Pdf
Since the silent days of cinema, Westerns have been one of the most popular genres, not just in the United States but around the world. International filmmakers have been so taken by westerns that many directors have produced versions of their own, despite lacking access to the American West. Nowhere has the Western been more embraced outside of the United States than Italy. In the 1960s, as Hollywood heroes like John Wayne and Randolph Scott were aging, Italian filmmakers were revitalizing the western, securing younger American actors for their productions and also making stars of homegrown talent. Movies directed and produced by Italians have been branded “spaghetti westerns”—a genre that boastsseveral hundred films. In Spaghetti Westerns: A Viewer’s Guide, Aliza S. Wong identifies the most significant westerns all’italiana produced as well as the individuals who significantly contributed to the genre. The author profiles such American actors as Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef; composers including Ennio Morricone and Carlo Rustichelli; and, of course, directors like Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Leone. The most memorable movies of the genre are also examined, includingCompañeros, Django; A Fistful of Dollars; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; and They Call Me Trinity. In addition to citing pivotal films and filmmakers, this volume also highlights other relevant aspects of the genre, including popular shooting locations, subgenres like the Zapata western, and the films and filmmakers who were inspired by the spaghetti western, including Quentin Tarantino, Richard Rodriguez, and Takashi Miike. An introduction to a unique homage of American cinema, Spaghetti Westerns: A Viewer’s Guide allows fans and scholars alike to learn more about a genre that continues to fascinate audiences.
Italian Horror Cinema
Stefano Baschiera
Author : Stefano Baschiera
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748693535
Italian Horror Cinema by Stefano Baschiera Pdf
This collection brings together for the first time a range of contributions aimed at a new understanding of the Italian horror cinema genre.
25 films that made Horror Cinema - Part Second
Laura Cremonini
Author : Laura Cremonini
Publisher : Self-Publish
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
25 films that made Horror Cinema - Part Second by Laura Cremonini Pdf
This book is the assembly of various texts that are freely available on the web, especially from Wikipedia. The next obvious question is: why buy this book? The answer: because it means you avoid having to carry out long and tedious internet searches. (13 different topics grouped in one book) The topics are all linked to each other organically, and as a function of the subject and, in most cases, contain additional unpublished topics, not found on the web. Moreover, the inclusion of images completes the work so as to make it unique and unrepeatable. (Over 100 poster and film scenes). In addition, each film is linked to Youtube and in most cases the films are viewed in full Movie. Contents of the book: 25 films that made Horror Cinema: Halloween (1978), The Brood (1979), Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979), The Fog (1980), ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà (1981), Sien lui yau wan (1987), Dracula (1992), Interview with the Vampire (1994), The Others (2001), The Village (2004), El orfanato (2007), 30 Days of Night (2007), Sinister (2012). Of each film: Plot, Production, Background and development, Pre-production, Production, Release, Home media, Critical reception, Aftermath and influence, References, Footnotes, Posters and Film Scenes.
Bloodstained Narratives
Matthew Edwards,Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Author : Matthew Edwards,Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496844477
Bloodstained Narratives by Matthew Edwards,Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Pdf
Contributions by Donald L. Anderson, Brian Brems, Eric Brinkman, Matthew Edwards, Brenda S. Gardenour Walter, Andrew Grossman, Lisa Haegele, Gavin F. Hurley, Mikel J. Koven, Sharon Jane Mee, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Émilie von Garan, Connor John Warden, and Sean Woodard The giallo (yellow) film cycle, characterized by its bloody murders and blending of high art and cinematic sleaze, rose to prominence in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning with Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) and Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), giallo films influenced the American slasher films of the 1980s and attracted an increasingly large fandom. In Bloodstained Narratives: The Giallo Film in Italy and Abroad, contributors explore understudied aspects of gialli. The chapters introduce readers to a wide range of films, including masterpieces from Argento and overlooked gems, all of them examined in close detail. Rather than understanding giallo as focalized exclusively in Italy in the 1970s, this collection explores the extension of gialli narratives abroad through different geographies and times. This book examines Italian gialli of the 1970s as well as American neo-gialli, French productions, Canadian horror films of the 1980s, and Asian rewritings of this “yellow” cycle of crime/horror films. Bloodstained Narratives also features interviews with two giallo film directors, including cult favorite Antonio Bido. Rather than fading from the cinematic stage, gialli serves as a precursor and steady accomplice to horror-thriller films through the twenty-first century.
Supranational Horrors
Rui M. Trindade Oliveira
Author : Rui M. Trindade Oliveira
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793654359
Supranational Horrors by Rui M. Trindade Oliveira Pdf
Supranational Horrors: Italian and Spanish Horror Cinema since 1968 moves beyond national cinema discourse in considering the horror production of two Southern European countries, Italy and Spain. Rui M. Trindade Oliveira examines cultural elements that films from these nations share, arguing that a fuller understanding of European horror is possible when we acknowledge the output of Italy and Spain as being interconnected, as possessing a supranational, common identity: “Italian-Spanishness.”
Horror in Space
Michele Brittany
Author : Michele Brittany
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476630625
Horror in Space by Michele Brittany Pdf
In sharp contrast to many 1960s science fiction films, with idealized views of space exploration, Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) terrified audiences, depicting a harrowing and doomed deep-space mission. The Alien films launched a new generation of horror set in the great unknown, inspiring filmmakers to take Earth-bound franchises like Leprechaun and Friday the 13th into space. This collection of new essays examines the space horror subgenre, with a focus on such films as Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon, Duncan Jones' Moon, Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires and John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars. Contributors discuss how filmmakers explored the concepts of the final girl/survivor, the uncanny valley, the isolationism of space travel, religion and supernatural phenomena.
Tonino Valerii
Roberto Curti
Author : Roberto Curti
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476626185
Tonino Valerii by Roberto Curti Pdf
Tonino Valerii is one of Italy's best genre film directors. Starting out as Sergio Leone's assistant on For a Few Dollars More (1965), he went on to direct spaghetti westerns that stand out among the most accomplished in their class--Day of Anger (1967), The Price of Power (1969), A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die! (1972) and My Name Is Nobody (1973). He also directed the outstanding giallo My Dear Killer (1972). This book examines Valerii's life and career in depth for the first time, with exclusive interviews with the filmmaker, scriptwriters and actors, and critical analysis of his films.
Mario Bava
Tim Lucas
Author : Tim Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1125 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 096337561X
Mario Bava by Tim Lucas Pdf
The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema
Jacqueline Reich
Author : Jacqueline Reich
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253017482
The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema by Jacqueline Reich Pdf
Italian film star Bartolomeo Pagano's "Maciste" played a key role in his nation's narratives of identity during World War I and after. Jacqueline Reich traces the racial, class, and national transformations undergone by this Italian strongman from African slave in Cabiria (1914), his first film, to bourgeois gentleman, to Alpine soldier of the Great War, to colonial officer in Italy's African adventures. Reich reveals Maciste as a figure who both reflected classical ideals of masculine beauty and virility (later taken up by Mussolini and used for political purposes) and embodied the model Italian citizen. The 12 films at the center of the book, recently restored and newly accessible to a wider public, together with relevant extra-cinematic materials, provide a rich resource for understanding the spread of discourses on masculinity, and national and racial identities during a turbulent period in Italian history. The volume includes an illustrated appendix documenting the restoration and preservation of these cinematic treasures.
MURDER BY DESIGN
Troy Howarth
Author : Troy Howarth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1644301164
MURDER BY DESIGN by Troy Howarth Pdf
An in-depth look at the films of Dario Argento, Italy's acknowledged master of horror and suspense, has made a career out of exploring the macabre poetry of images of violent death. He did not, however, set out to be a filmmaker. He established himself early on as a progressive voice in film criticism-lavishing praise on directors like Sergio Leone, who had yet to receive their due from the Italian critical establishment. His efforts attracted the attention of Leone himself, who invited the young critic to help develop the story for his next feature. The end result, Once Upon a Time in the West, is often cited as a masterpiece-and from there, Argento went on to enjoy success as a screenwriter before making the all-important switch to directing. His directorial debut, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, became a major hit and helped to popularize the floundering genre of Italian thrillers, also known as gialli. In the years since, Argento has established a high profile as one of Italian cinema's most commercially successful artists, earning a level of celebrity which is almost unheard of among film directors. His filmography includes such beloved gems as Deep Red, Suspiria, Inferno, and Phenomena, as well as more hotly-debated titles like The Stendhal Syndrome, The Phantom of the Opera, Sleepless, and Mother of Tears. Murder by Design: The Unsane Cinema of Dario Argento explores the full scope of his work as a writer, a producer, and a director. Lavishly illustrated and with newly conducted interviews with Dario Argento, as well as such colleagues as actress (and daughter) Fiore Argento, actress Sally Kirkland, actress Irene Miracle, composer Claudio Simonetti, and cinematographer Luciano Tovoli, the book provides a comprehensive overview of Argento's life, career, and rich cinematic legacy.