Austin Fisher

Blood in the Streets (eBook, ePUB)

Histories of Violence in Italian Crime Cinema

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political contexts. The book analyses the emergence, proliferation and distribution of a range of popular film cycles (or filoni) - from conspiracy thrillers and vigilante films, to mafia and serial killer narratives - and examines what these reveal about their time and place. With industrial conditions geared around rapid production schedules and concentrated release patterns, the engagement in these films with both the contemporary political turmoil of 1970s Italy and the traumas of the nation's recent past offers a range of fascinating insights into the wider anxieties of this decade concerning the Second World War and its ongoing political aftermath.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474411745
• Artikelnr.: 72412978

Autorenporträt

Austin Fisher is Associate Professor of Popular Culture at Bournemouth University. He is the author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western, editor of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads and Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond, and founding co-editor of the 'Global Exploitation Cinemas' book series. His main area of expertise concerns popular Italian cinema's relationship with political movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Italian Crime Films and the Years of Lead
2 Corruption and Conspiracy in the Poliziottesco and the Vigilante Filone
3 Nostalgic Gangsters and the Mafia Filone
4 Serial Killing and the Giallo
5 Enter ... If You Dare! The Cross-Cultural Reception of Crime Filoni
Conclusion
Bibliography
Endnotes