
Dario Argento
- Edited by Domenico De Gaetano, Marcello Garofalo
- Binding Paperback with flaps
- Size 24 x 28 cm
- Pages 304
- Illustrations 515
- Language Italian, English
- Year 2022
- ISBN 9788836651719
- Price € 34,00 € 32,30
This book is dedicated to Dario Argento, one of the best known and most loved Italian directors in the world, the undisputed master of the horror genre.
The enormous success of his cinema is due to its visionary power, the search for an aesthetic dimension which is reached through excess, the paradox generated by the gaze of the protagonist of the story that often collides with that of the spectator, both dazzled by a “staging” that deceives, that makes you dream – or fall into a hallucinatory dimension – when you think you are watchful and can dominate reality.
An “idealist” cinema, as defined by the director himself, made of nightmares, dreams, visions, untouched by the grey reality.
Contents
I’m very Pleased
Dario Argento
An exhibition dedicated to Dario Argento
Domenico De Gaetano and Marcello Garofalo
CAPITOLO 1
Critical Essays
Technicolor blood. In praise of Dario Argento
Mick Garris
For an Imagery of Visual Delirium
Domenico De Gaetano
Argento: The Image in the Mirror
Marcello Garofalo
The Imaginary Geography of Dario Argento’s Cinema
Stefano Della Casa
The Female Villains of the Story
Piera Detassis
Argento’s Soundtracks
Roberto Pugliese
Dario Argento and Cinema as Form of Cosmopolitan Terror
Alan Jones
Nitrato d’Argento: Passions and Landmarks from Other Cinematic Models
Domenico Monetti
CAPITOLO 2
The Movies and Their Creative Universee
CAPITOLO 3
Working with Dario
“Susy, do you know anything about witches?”
Stefania Casini
Just a way of looking at things
Franco Bellomo
Dr. Caligari and the Mummy’s Shroud
Luigi Cozzi
I’m not the only one who’s dreaming about it
Claudio Simonetti
Coffee residue that lasts a lifetime
Sergio Stivaletti
Chronicle of a successful collaboration
Luciano Tovoli
Between what’s absurd or possible, tertium datur
Antonello Geleng
A normal person, yet…
Stefano Oggiano e Gabriele Farina
CAPITOLO 4
Thematic Frames
Evil Must Be Recounted
Grazia Paganelli
Shape and Feeling
Fabio Pezzetti Tonion
Argento-Symphonie
Matteo Pollone
Statements by Quentin Tarantino, William Friedkin, Mick Garris, Nicolas Winding Refn, Jessica Harper, Tim Burton, Banana Yoshimoto, Asia Argento, Adriano Celentano, Guillermo del Toro, Vittorio Storaro.
Argento Bulgari Inferno
Dario Argento
A Bulgari Snake Sliding Into the “Inferno”
Lucia Boscaini
CAPITOLO 5
Interview
Biography
Filmography
Mariella Lazzarin, Doppiozero, 04/08/2022
Tutto l'Argento della Mole
Redazione, la Repubblica, 06/04/2022
Museo del Cinema di Torino, una mostra per celebrare gli incubi di Dario Argento
Pedro Armocida, il Giornale, 08/04/2022
L'orrore in mostra. Tutto il bello della paura nel tesoro di Dario Argento
Restauri della Cineteca Nazionale 2002-2016
Images