The Italian Gothic and Fantastic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Italian Gothic and Fantastic write by Francesca Billiani. This book was released on 2007. The Italian Gothic and Fantastic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meanwhile, by assimilating the Other into our own modes of representation of reality and imagination, twentieth-century female writers of the fantastic show how alternative identities can be shaped and social constituencies can be challenged."--BOOK JACKET.
Fantastic Tales
Fantastic Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fantastic Tales write by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti. This book was released on 2020-09-29. Fantastic Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, among many other awards, has translated into English these Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love, mysterious phobias, and the hellish curse of everlasting life. In this collection of nine eerie stories, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti switches effortlessly between the macabre and the breezily comical. Set in nineteenth-century Italy, his characters court spirits and blend in with the undead: passionate romances filled with jealousy and devotion are fueled by magic elixirs. Time becomes fluid as characters travel between centuries, chasing affairs that never quite prosper. First published by Mercury House in 1992.
Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969
Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969 write by Roberto Curti. This book was released on 2015-03-27. Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The "Gothic" style was a key trend in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s because of its peculiar, often strikingly original approach to the horror genre. These films portrayed Gothic staples in a stylish and idiosyncratic way, and took a daring approach to the supernatural and to eroticism, with the presence of menacing yet seductive female witches, vampires and ghosts. Thanks to such filmmakers as Mario Bava (Black Sunday), Riccardo Freda (The Horrible Dr. Hichcock), and Antonio Margheriti (Castle of Blood), as well the iconic presence of actress Barbara Steele, Italian Gothic horror went overseas and reached cult status. The book examines the Italian Gothic horror of the period, with an abundance of previously unpublished production information drawn from official papers and original scripts. Entries include a complete cast and crew list, home video releases, plot summary and the author's analysis. Excerpts from interviews with filmmakers, scriptwriters and actors are included. The foreword is by film director and scriptwriter Ernesto Gastaldi.
The Italian Short Story through the Centuries
The Italian Short Story through the Centuries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Italian Short Story through the Centuries write by Roberto Nicosia. This book was released on 2018-11-07. The Italian Short Story through the Centuries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of thirteen essays brings together Italian and American scholars to present a cooperative analysis of the Italian short story, beginning in the fourteenth century with Giovanni Boccaccio and arriving at the twentieth century with Alberto Moravia and Anna Maria Ortese. Throughout the book, the contributors carefully and intentionally unpack and explain the development of the short story genre and demonstrate the breadth of themes – cultural, historical and linguistic – detailed in these narratives. Dedicated to a genre “devoted to lightness and flexibility, as well as quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity,” this collection paints a careful and exacting picture of an important part of both Italian and literary history.
Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989
Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989 write by Roberto Curti. This book was released on 2019-02-15. Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Italian Gothic horror genre underwent many changes in the 1980s, with masters such as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda dying or retiring and young filmmakers such as Lamberto Bava (Macabro, Demons) and Michele Soavi (The Church) surfacing. Horror films proved commercially successful in the first half of the decade thanks to Dario Argento (both as director and producer) and Lucio Fulci, but the rise of made-for-TV products has resulted in the gradual disappearance of genre products from the big screen. This book examines all the Italian Gothic films of the 1980s. It includes previously unpublished trivia and production data taken from official archive papers, original scripts and interviews with filmmakers, actors and scriptwriters. The entries include a complete cast and crew list, plot summary, production history and analysis. Two appendices list direct-to-video releases and made-for-TV films.
