Blood in the Streets

Histories of Violence in Italian Crime Cinema

AvAustin Fisher

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-02-26
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:506 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474411721
Utmärkelser:Winner of British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Awards: Best Monograph Award 2020

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

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.

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The filone is the subject; film convention, cycles and series the method; and government corruption, crime syndicates, policing, murder mysteries, street riots and political violence is the topic of enquiry. Adroitly pulling these strands together, Austin Fisher has produced one of the finest histories of post-war Italian popular cinema.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Italian Crime Films and the Years of Lead2 Corruption and Conspiracy in the Poliziottesco and the Vigilante Filone3 Nostalgic Gangsters and the Mafia Filone4 Serial Killing and the Giallo5 Enter … If You Dare! The Cross-Cultural Reception of Crime FiloniConclusionBibliographyEndnotes