Blood in the Streets
Histories of Violence in Italian Crime Cinema
Published on 26. February 2019
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4744-1172-1 (ISBN)
Description
Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political contexts. The book analyses the emergence, proliferation and distribution of a range of popular film cycles (or filoni) - from conspiracy thrillers and vigilante films, to mafia and serial killer narratives - and examines what these reveal about their time and place.
With industrial conditions geared around rapid production schedules and concentrated release patterns, the engagement in these films with both the contemporary political turmoil of 1970s Italy and the traumas of the nation's recent past offers a range of fascinating insights into the wider anxieties of this decade concerning the Second World War and its ongoing political aftermath.
With industrial conditions geared around rapid production schedules and concentrated release patterns, the engagement in these films with both the contemporary political turmoil of 1970s Italy and the traumas of the nation's recent past offers a range of fascinating insights into the wider anxieties of this decade concerning the Second World War and its ongoing political aftermath.
Reviews / Votes
The filone is the subject; film convention, cycles and series the method; and government corruption, crime syndicates, policing, murder mysteries, street riots and political violence is the topic of enquiry. Adroitly pulling these strands together, Austin Fisher has produced one of the finest histories of post-war Italian popular cinema. -- Peter Stanfield, author of Hoodlum Movies: seriality and the outlaw biker film cycle, 1966-1972More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
15 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-1172-1 (9781474411721)
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Person
Austin Fisher is Associate Professor of Popular Culture at Bournemouth University. He is the author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western, editor of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads and Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond, and founding co-editor of the 'Global Exploitation Cinemas' book series. His main area of expertise concerns popular Italian cinema's relationship with political movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
Content
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Italian Crime Films and the Years of Lead
2 Corruption and Conspiracy in the Poliziottesco and the Vigilante Filone
3 Nostalgic Gangsters and the Mafia Filone
4 Serial Killing and the Giallo
5 Enter ... If You Dare! The Cross-Cultural Reception of Crime Filoni
Conclusion
Bibliography
Endnotes
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Italian Crime Films and the Years of Lead
2 Corruption and Conspiracy in the Poliziottesco and the Vigilante Filone
3 Nostalgic Gangsters and the Mafia Filone
4 Serial Killing and the Giallo
5 Enter ... If You Dare! The Cross-Cultural Reception of Crime Filoni
Conclusion
Bibliography
Endnotes