The American film industry of the 1970s was very particular and bold. The period under inspection in this title covers a style named “dirty realism” that came up in roughly the late 1960s and lasted until 1974. That period of unusual gritty esthetics was part of the American New Wave cinema. Its directors usually rejected […]
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Mario Bava: The Artisan as Italian Horror Auteur by Leon Hunt (2023)
One of the big names of Italian movie art, or in this case the horror and crime movie genre, Mario Bava (1914-1980) is the subject of this study on European “auteur-cinema” of the 1960s and 1970s. Without Bava, there would be no such genre masterpieces as Danger: Diabolik (1968), Kill Baby … Kill (1966), Baron […]
Vigilantes: Private Justice in Popular Cinema by Kevin Grant (2020)
When in movies a crime is committed against a citizen and neither the police force nor judges seem able or willing to catch and punish the assailant, mostly two options are presented to the victim/protagonist: to accept that the law and its divisions can fail sometimes, or to start a crusade against the aggressor all […]