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Dario Argento (Paperback)
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Dario Argento (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Film Directors
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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.
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