Maitland McDonagh

Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento

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Produktbeschreibung

Italian filmmaker Dario Argentos horror films have been described as a blend of Alfred Hitchcock and George Romeropsychologically 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 Argentos most recent films, from The Stendahl Syndrome to Mother of Tears; an updated filmography; and an interview with Argento.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Expanded
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 141mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780816656073
• ISBN-10: 081665607X
• Artikelnr.: 28136670

Autorenporträt

Maitland McDonagh is a film critic and TV commentator who maintains her own Web site, MissFlickChick.com. She was the senior movies editor of TVGuide.com from 1995 to 2008.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Heart of Darkness: Twenty-first Century Nightmares
An Introduction to the Dark Dreams of Dario Argento
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Cat O’Nine Tails and Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Le cinque giornate and Deep Red
Suspiria and Inferno
Tenebrae and Creepers
Opera and Two Evil Eyes
Epilogue
Afterword: Trauma and the Changing Face of Horror
An Interview with Dario Argento (circa 1985)
Acknowledgments
The Films of Dario Argento
Select Bibliography