Damien Pollard

Sound and Horror in the Giallo Film (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Italian giallo was a sleazy, violent, and stylistically baroque form of horror film that was produced in the hundreds from the 1960s to the 1980s. Sound and Horror in the Giallo Film listens closely to these films, asking how their soundtracks and their use of the human voice can help us understand the giallo's significance at a time when Italy was undergoing profound postwar social, economic, political, and cultural change.

Throughout the history of Italian cinema, soundtracks have been a site of concerted and sustained intervention by political and economic forces. In Sound and Horror in the Giallo Film, author Damien Pollard argues that, because the giallo film pushed the boundaries of film form while also touting unapologetic commercialism, the voices on its soundtracks were both aesthetically exaggerated and directly shaped by commercial imperatives, which were influenced by Italy's turbulent postwar years.

Featuring case studies of several well-known giallo films, including The Girl Who Knew Too Much, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, and Tenebrae, Sound and Horror in the Giallo Film is an original analysis that reveals how the cinematic voice binds film and history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253073938
• Artikelnr.: 75170459

Autorenporträt

Damien Pollard is Lecturer in Film at Northumbria University. He is editor (with Edward Bowen) of Film Exhibition: The Italian Context.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Eavesdropping on History
1. Intertextual Voices: The Girl Who Knew Too Much
2. Directorial Voices: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
3. Ideological Voices: Short Night of Glass Dolls
4. National Voices: Don't Torture a Duckling and Torso
5. Economic Voices: The New York Ripper and Tenebrae
Conclusion: The Voice as a Process
Bibliography
Index