Palimpsest, Pasolini, Poe and Poetics, or the phantoms haunting Dario Argento’s Opera (1987)
Argento’s gialli – i.e. Italian-style thrillers – from The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) onwards present a succession of protagonists who find themselves haunted by some vital fragment of sound or image that they cannot quite recall, going up against antagonists whose inability to overcome th...
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University of Edinburgh
2008-12-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/609 |