Dario Argento

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments | ix Dario Argento: Doing Violence on Film | 1 Against Criticism: Opera and The Stendhal Syndrome 5 Opera 8 The Stendhal Syndrome 17 Against Interpretation: The First Five Gialli 23 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 26 The Cat o’ Nine Tails 37 Four Flies on Grey Velvet 43 Deep Red 52 Tenebre 62 Against Narrative: The Three Mothers Trilogy and Phenomena 73 Suspiria 75 Inferno 94 Mother of Tears 107 Phenomena 119 Against Conventions: From Trauma to Giallo 127 Trauma 129 The Stendhal Syndrome (Revisited) 133 Sleepless 134 The Card Player 137 Do You Like Hitchcock? 140 Giallo 142 Interviews with Dario Argento | 149 Filmography: Feature Films and Television Directed by Dario Argento | 155 Bibliography | 173 Index | 181 ...