Visto, si stupri. Sesso e terrore nelle immagini di violenza sulle donne nel cinema italiano degli anni Settanta, tra finzione e realtà by Giovanni Memola

“…In this context, the mystery-thriller films of the so-called “giallo” established a peculiar relation with violence against women at large, as they encoded it in the narrative mechanisms and in the development of the genre itself by means of subject-related marketing strategies and audience expectations. Quickly brought to popularity in the wake of Dario Argento’s works, over the years the “giallo” has been widely investigated precisely on the grounds of its defining featuring of violence against women, with most outcomes interpreting its psychological and allegorical aspects against the background of Italy’s contemporaneous social history. …”
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