The first ever edited collection in the English language, Critical Perspectives on Dario Argento is a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the films of one of the most renowned directors from the world of Euro-Horror.
Written by some of the top scholars working in fields as diverse as philosophy, film and media studies, the chapters of this book engage with Argento via posthumanism, art cinema, gender studies, historical analyses of his context, and aesthetics of blindness. The eighteen essays cover all the films made by Argento, including a section on homages and remakes.
The first ever edited collection in the English language, Critical Perspectives on Dario Argento is a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the films of one of the most renowned directors from the world of Euro-Horror.
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This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and up-to-date analysis of the entire filmography of Dario Argento, one of the most renowned directors from the world of Euro-Horror, to illuminate and demonstrate the lasting contributions and influence of his perspective and works on the horror genre.
Introduction
PART I: GIALLO
1. Eyes (Propped) Wide Open: Predatory Capitalism as Sadistic Gendered
Violence in Argentos Opera and Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Eric Brinkman (Indiana University, USA)
2. Family Psychology, Mental Illness, and Social Stigma in Trauma
Andrew Burt (Gogebic Community College, USA)
3. Blindness, Aesthetics, and Radical Contingency in Dario Argentos The Cat
O Nine Tails (1971) and Dark Glasses (2022)
L. Andrew Cooper (Independent Scholar, USA)
4. "Real Dead Bodies": The Death of American Authorship in Dario Argentos
Tenebre
Derek Graf (New York Institute of Technology, USA)
5. Violence in the Streets: Italys anni di piombo through La porta sul buio
Jorge Traversa (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Guillermo Link
(Universidad de BuenosAires, Argentina)
6. Has the Yellow Fever Broken: Dario Argento and the 21st Century Giallo
Mateja Šedovic (Independent Scholar, UK)
PART II: PHILOSOPHIES OF HORROR
7. Dario Argentos Apollonian-Dionysian Dialectic
Gavin Hurley (Ave Maria University, USA)
8. The Signification of Murder in Dario Argentos Sleepless (2001)
Sean Woodard (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
9. Mothers Mayhem: Abjection and Neurotic Surplus Repression in Dario
Argentos La terza madre
Casey Cockrum (Virginia Tech, USA) and Antonio Sanna (University of
Westminster London, USA)
10. Vulnerabilities of the Super-Natural: Plasticity in Dario Argentos
Phenomena
Sony Jalarajan Raj (MacEwan University, Canada) and Adith K Suresh (MacEwan
University, Canada)
11. Beelzebabes: An Ontological Interrogation of the Nonhuman in Argentos
Phenomena
Molly Follette (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
12. The Animal Turn in Phenomena, Il fantasma dellopera, Dracula 3D,
Jenifer and 'Pelts'
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
PART III: ADAPTATIONS, HOMAGES
13. Art Cinema and the Grotesque: Dario Argentos Le cinque giornate
Clayton Dillard (Texas Christian University, USA)
14. Trauma, Metadaptation, and Fidelitys Recuperative Claim in Suspiria
(1977 and 2018)
Jamie L. McDaniel (Radford University, USA)
15. Galleria Oscura: Paintings in Dario Argentos Giallo Films
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (Independent Scholar, Australia)
16. Virtual/Real Bodies in Lamberto Bava and Dario Argentos Demoni
Emiliano Aguilar (Universidad de Buenos Aires, USA)
17. The Fourth Mother: Postmodernism, Metacinema, and Autobiography in Luigi
Cozzis The Black Cat
Felipe M. Guerra (Independent Scholar, Brazil)
18. Iconic Personality: The Public Image of Dario Argento
Marco Chiaretti (Universidad De Murcia and La Sapienza, Italy)
About the Contributors
Index
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he teaches courses on international horror film.
