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Antonio Gramsci and the literature of crime detection Antonio Gramsci and the literature of crime detection
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Surrealism, cruelty and violence Surrealism, cruelty and violence
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Profondo rosso: the formulaic and the aesthetic Profondo rosso: the formulaic and the aesthetic
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La sindrome di Stendhal: ocular destruction La sindrome di Stendhal: ocular destruction
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Allegory and the baroque: the Three Mothers trilogy Allegory and the baroque: the Three Mothers trilogy
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Bibliography Bibliography
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8. The Giallo/Slasher Landscape: Ecologia Del Delitto, Friday The 13Th And Subtractive Spectatorship
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6. The Argento Syndrome: Aesthetics of Horror
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Published:July 2016
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Abstract
The Argento Syndrome is my term for discussing filmmaker Dario Argento’s consistent, even obsessive, explorations on film of the nature and effects of creating and viewing violence. Argento’s films are an unrelenting investigation of the cinematic uses of memory, trauma and distorted vision, and the cinematic body as threatened site of attack, mutilation and death. The films are symptomatic of a politics and aesthetics that invoke the powers of internalised and externalised forms of horror, particularly tied to the twentieth century and to the uses of media technology, including computer-generated effects. In their blurring of fact and fantasy, challenges to representation, hallucinatory quality and particular strategies to incorporate the viewer into their images, they address a world where the real and illusory have lost their clarity and where art is as dangerous as life. Argento is a filmmaker whose cinematic work is very self-conscious of the uses of horror ‘as a meditation on the aesthetics of filmmaking itself’ (Schneider, 2007: 60).
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