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This volume celebrates one of the best known and most loved Italian directors in the world, one of the great masters of tension and horror: Dario Argento. Over the years his cinema has established itself - among cinephiles but not only - for its visionary power, for the search for an aesthetic dimension which is reached through excess. And this excess is not so much what materialises in the virtuosity of the staging of murder and death, as in treating such a brutal and disturbing material in such a way that it becomes something abstract, almost a baroque stylisation. The volume, full of critical essays that investigate the poetics and imagination of Dario Argento, retraces the director’s complete filmography. It also welcomes the testimonies of collaborators and the statements of great directors and actors who shared his long career. Biographies complete the volume. With texts by: Mick Garris, Domenico De Gaetano, Marcello Garofalo, Stefano Della Casa, Piera Detassis, Roberto Pugliese, Alan Jones, Domenico Monetti; testimonianze di: Stefania Casini, Franco Bellomo, Luigi Cozzi, Claudio Simonetti, Sergio Stivaletti, Luciano Tovoli, Antonello Geleng, Pupi Oggiano; fotogrammi tematici: Grazia Paganelli, Matteo Pollone, and Fabio Pezzetti Tonion. Text in English and Italian.

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Author:   Domenico De Gaetano ,  Marcello Garofalo
Publisher:   Silvana
Imprint:   Silvana
Weight:   1.844kg
ISBN:  

9788836651719

ISBN 10:   8836651712
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   18 May 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English, Italian

Table of Contents

Sono davvero felice, di Dario Argento I’m Very Pleased, by Dario Argento Una mostra dedicata a Dario Argento, di Domenico De Gaetano e Marcello Garofalo An Exhibition Dedicated to Dario Argento, by Domenico De Gaetano and Marcello Garofalo CAPITOLO / CHAPTER 1 Saggi critici / Critical Essays Sangue in Technicolor. Elogio di Dario Argento, di Mick Garris Technicolor Blood. In Praise of Dario Argento, by Mick Garris Per una poetica del delirio visivo, di Domenico De Gaetano For an Imagery of Visual Delirium, by Domenico De Gaetano Argento: l’immagine allo specchio, di Marcello Garofalo Argento: The Image in the Mirror, by Marcello Garofalo La geografia immaginaria nel cinema di Dario Argento, di Stefano Della Casa The Imaginary Geography of Dario Argento’s Cinema, by Stefano Della Casa Le cattive della storia, di Piera Detassis The Female Villains of the Story, by Piera Detassis Musiche d’Argento, di Roberto Pugliese Argento’s Soundtracks, by Roberto Pugliese Dario Argento e il cinema come forma di terrore cosmopolita, di Alan Jones Dario Argento and Cinema as Form of Cosmopolitan Terror, by Alan Jones Nitrato d’Argento: passioni e punti di riferimento relativi al cinema altro, di Domenico Monetti Nitrato d’Argento: Passions and Landmarks from Other Cinematic Models, by Domenico Monetti CAPITOLO / CHAPTER 2 I film e il loro universo creativo / The Movies and Their Creative Universee CAPITOLO / CHAPTER 3 Lavorando con Dario / Working with Dario “Susy, tu sai niente di streghe?”, di Stefania Casini “Susy, Do You Know Anything About Witches?”, by Stefania Casini Solo un modo di vedere le cose, di Franco Bellomo Just a Way of Looking at Things, by Franco Bellomo Il dottor Caligari e il sudario della mummia, di Luigi Cozzi Dr. Caligari and the Mummy’s Shroud, by Luigi Cozzi Non sono il solo a sognarlo, di Claudio Simonetti I’m Not the Only One Who’s Dreaming About It, by Claudio Simonetti Fondi di un caffè lungo una vita, di Sergio Stivaletti Coffee Residue That Lasts a Lifetime, by Sergio Stivaletti Cronistoria di una collaborazione felice, di Luciano Tovoli Chronicle of a Successful Collaboration, by Luciano Tovoli Tra l’assurdo e l’impossibile, tertium datur, di Antonello Geleng Between What’s Absurd or Possible, Tertium Datur, by Antonello Geleng Una persona normale, eppure…, di Stefano Oggiano e Gabriele Farina A Normal Person, yet…, by Stefano Oggiano e Gabriele Farina CAPITOLO / CHAPTER 4 Fotogrammi tematici / Thematic Frames Il male va raccontato, di Grazia Paganelli Evil Must Be Recounted, by Grazia Paganelli Forma e sensazione, di Fabio Pezzetti Tonion Shape and Feeling, by Fabio Pezzetti Tonion Argento-Symphonie, di Matteo Pollone Argento-Symphonie, by Matteo Pollone Dichiarazioni di / Statements by Quentin Tarantino, William Friedkin, Mick Garris, Nicolas Winding Refn, Jessica Harper, Tim Burton, Banana Yoshimoto, Asia Argento, Adriano Celentano, Guillermo del Toro, Vittorio Storaro Argento Bulgari Inferno, di Dario Argento Argento Bulgari Inferno, by Dario Argento Un serpente Bulgari si insinua nell’“Inferno”, di Lucia Boscaini A Bulgari Snake Sliding Into the “Inferno”, by Lucia Boscaini CAPITOLO / CHAPTER 5 Intervista / Interview - Biografia / Biography – Filmografia / Filmography

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