Date of Award

Spring 5-3-2024

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Art & Art History

First Advisor

Maria Antonella Pelizzari

Second Advisor

Giovanna Maina

Academic Program Adviser

Maria Antonella Pelizzari

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the Italian experience with horror in cinema in both psychoanalytic feminist and cognitive Marxist critical film theories through a study of visual renderings of excessive violence and sex in gothic and thrillers known as giallo films created by the film director Mario Bava. This is an art historical study that looks at Bava’s work against the Italian cultural landscape in the post war period.

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