Bloodstained Narratives

<p><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>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</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>The </span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>giallo</em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)> (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 </span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>The Girl Who Knew Too Much </em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>(1963) and Dario Argento's </span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>The Bird with the Crystal Plumage </em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>(1970)</span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)> giallo</em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)> films influenced the American slasher films of the 1980s and attracted an increasingly large fandom.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>Bloodstained Narratives: The </em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>Giallo </span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>Film in Italy and Abroad</em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)> contributors explore understudied aspects of </span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>gialli</em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>. 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 </span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>giallo</em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)> as focalized exclusively in Italy in the 1970s this collection explores the extension of </span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>gialli</em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)> narratives abroad through different geographies and times. This book examines Italian </span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>gialli</em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)> of the 1970s as well as American neo-</span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>gialli</em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)> French productions Canadian horror films of the 1980s and Asian rewritings of this yellow cycle of crime/horror films. </span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>Bloodstained Narratives</em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)> also features interviews with two </span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>giallo </em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>film directors including cult favorite Antonio Bido. Rather than fading from the cinematic stage </span><em style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>gialli </em><span style=color: rgba(73 80 87 1)>serves as a precursor and steady accomplice to horror-thriller films through the twenty-first century.</span></p>