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Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento
Book
2010
Published by:
University of Minnesota Press
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
| ISBN | 9780816673421 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9780816656073 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 646067959 |
| Pages | 296 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2014-01-01 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | No |


