Black Sunday / Martyn Conterio

Author:: Conterio, Martyn
Published:: Leighton Buzzard : Auteur, 2015.
Copyright Date:: ©2015
Physical Description:: 99 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

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Series:

Devil's Advocates

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Context -- 2.The Birth of Italian Horror -- 3.Production and Reception -- 4.Influences and Adaptation -- 5.Analysis -- 6.Black Sunday's Legacy.

Summary:

Despite its reputation as one of the greatest and most influential of all horror films, there is surprisingly little literature dedicated to Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), and this contribution to the Devil's Advocates series is the first single book dedicated to it. Martyn Conterio places the film in the historical context of being one of the first sound Italian horror films and how its success kick-started the Italian horror boom. The author considers the particularly Italian perspective on the gothic that the film pioneered and its fresh and pioneering approach to horror tropes such as the vampire and the witch and considers how the casting of British 'Scream Queen' Barbara Steele was crucial to the film's effectiveness and success.

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ISBN:

9781906733834 paperback
190673383X

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-99).

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the Jack Pontius Libraries Collection Endowment in Communication; 2015

Endowment Note:

Jack Pontius Libraries Collection Endowment in Communication

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