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In the Italian language, giallo is a genre of novel including any literary genre involving crime and mystery, with all its sub-genres such as crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, or thriller-horror.
Oct 18, 2021 · “Giallo” literally means “yellow,” in reference to the yellow covers common to the sensationalistic Italian pulp novels these movies clearly resemble. But giallo was never an organized movement,...
- Giallo: A Genre Without A Definition
- The Structure of Giallo Stories
- Visceral Style in Both Sight and Sound
- The Legacy of Giallo
This genre includes slashers and mysteries such as Dario Argento's Suspiria, Sergio Martino's The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, and Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace. The genre was largely performed in the Italian language throughout the 1960s, but as the genre amassed worldwide popularity, the '70s saw more and more of these films performed in Engl...
Given its ambiguity, the idea of the giallo genre itself brings into question how we classify non-Hollywood movies, "going beyond the sort of Anglo-American taxonomic imaginary that fixes genre" as Gary Needham puts it. However, in spite of this genre's resistance towards definition, there are structural, thematic, and stylistic commonalities among...
In his book The Short Story of Film, Ian Hayden Smith wrote that "the outside status of the protagonist tended to be a key element -- or as in Mario Bava's Hatchet for the Honeymoon, the protagonist is the killer. Narrative coherence gradually became less significant." The genre instead saw a shift of focus towards stylistic choices. Giallo is ofte...
The giallo genre has been seen and studied by filmmakers across the world. Whodunit-cum-slashers helped move the horror genre in Hollywood away from sequel-breeding immortal killers like Jason Vorhees in the Friday the 13th series and Michael Myers in Halloween, inspiring stories like the '90s movies of Kevin Williamson. I Know What You Did Last Su...
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Feb 9, 2024 · The giallo genre began as literal adaptations of the original giallo mystery novels with the 1933 film, Giallo. Filmmakers soon saw the genre as a place to experiment with cinematic techniques that played with the audience’s psyche, creating films that were filled with paranoia and perversion.
Giallo is a subgenre of horror-thriller films that started in Italy, and its characterized by unique blend of murder mysteries, psychological horror, eroticism, and stylized violence.
Oct 24, 2021 · A Giallo film is a stylish and violent crime thriller hailing from Italy. The gore, creepy visuals, and similarities to slashers often associated with the Giallo genre lend strong connective tissue to the horror genre. Also, the crime and murder-mystery plot elements found across the genre keep Gialli grounded in the whodunits of the thriller ...
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Jun 26, 2024 · Inspired by the pulpy crime novels with yellow covers of the late 1920s, giallo films merge the crime genre with extravagant horror and thriller elements.
