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Deep Red (Paperback)
Alexia Kannas
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The release of Italian director Dario Argento's Deep Red in 1975
saw both a return to form for the director and the crystallization
of tropes of the giallo genre. While the film's immense popularity
in Italy spawned a wave of copy-cat formula thrillers, this
enthusiastic reception was not replicated by English-speaking
audiences on its theatrical release. With its loosely woven
narrative and hyper-stylized violent set pieces, Deep Red was
critically panned in the United States and the UK as cliched and
exploitative Euro-schlock. Tracing the film's history of
censorship, re-edited releases, and its subsequent celebration by
cult film audiences, this book considers how these competing
discourses have helped to transform the film's cultural status and
to fashion it as an exemplar of cult cinema.
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