SLASHED: INSECT GAZES, POINT-OF-VIEW PERSPECTIVES, AND THE RISE OF A POST/HUMAN VISION IN THE ITALIAN GIALLO.
Establishing an ecology of Italian horror by looking at Mario Bava's A Bay of Blood (1971) and Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985)--both of which feature insects' first-"person" perspective shots, this paper traces the formation and subsequent development of a gaze in these films, one that disrupts the...
| Publicado en: | Quaderni d'italianistica Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 17 - 34 |
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2025
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