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Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento

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Maitland McDonagh
2010
summary
Italian filmmaker Dario Argento’s horror films have been described as a blend of Alfred Hitchcock and George Romero—psychologically rich, colorful, and at times garish, excelling at taking the best elements of the splatter and exploitation genres and laying them over a dark undercurrent of human emotions and psyches. Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds, which dissects such Argento cult films as Two Evil Eyes, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Suspiria, and Deep Red, includes a new introduction discussing Argento’s most recent films, from The Stendahl Syndrome to Mother of Tears; an updated filmography; and an interview with Argento.

Table of Contents

Cover

pp. 1-1

Title Page, Copyright

pp. 2-5

Contents

pp. v-7

Introduction. Heart of Darkness: Twenty-first Century Nightmares

pp. vii-xxvii

Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds

pp. 1-31

An Introduction to the Dark Dreams of Dario Argento

pp. 3-34

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage

pp. 35-57

The Cat O'Nine Tails and Four Flies on Grey Velvet

pp. 59-90

Le cinque giornate and Deep Red

pp. 91-122

Suspiria and Inferno

pp. 123-158

Tenebrae and Creepers

pp. 159-196

Opera and Two Evil Eyes

pp. 197-221

Trauma and the Changing Face of Horror

pp. 223-230

Epilogue

pp. 231-234

An Interview with Dario Argento (circa 1985)

pp. 235-249

Acknowledgments

pp. 251-280

The Films of Dario Argento

pp. 252-280

Select Bibliography

pp. 281-293

About the Author

pp. 295-324
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