Bodies of desire and bodies in distress
Subtitle: the golden age of Italian cult cinema 1970-1985
By: by Xavier Mendik ; foreword by Enzo G. Castellari
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781443859547
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Motion pictures; History; Cult films
Notes: Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ch. One "There is Something Wrong with that Scene": The Return of the Repressed in 1970s Giallo Cinema; title: ch. Two Don't Torture the Landscape: Italian Cult Cinema and the Mezzogiorno Giallo; title: ch. Three Rape, Revenge and Railtrack: Space and Sexual Spectacle in the Suspense Thriller Giallo; title: ch. Four Maternal Monsters and `Demonised' Bodies: The Three Mothers and Beyond; title: ch. Five Fear at 109 Degrees: An Interview with Dario Argento; title: ch. Six "Body in a Bed, Body Growing Dead": Uncanny Women in the Gothic Horror Films of Aristide Massaccesi; title: ch. Seven Black Sex, Bad Sex: Monstrous Ethnicity in the Black Emanuelle Films; title: ch. Eight High Crimes and Fatalistic Cops: The Italian Poliziotteschi Films of the 1970s; title: ch. Nine New Barbarians on the Block: The Italian Post-Apocalyptic Peplums of the Early 1980s; title: ch. Ten The Years With(out) Lead: Terrorism, Trauma and Titillation: 1970; title: 1985.