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[email protected] University of Glasgow Department of Film and Television Studies Beyond “Brutality”: Understanding the Italian Filone’s Violent Excesses by Robert J. Edmonstone Matriculation #: 9703623 Supervisors: Dr. Ian Garwood / Dr. Karen Boyle 2 Contents Abstract 4 Acknowledgements 6 Introduction 7 1. Introducing the Filone: Industry, Cycles and Censorship 27 2. Investigating Violence and Spectacle in the Filone 71 3. Theorising Excess and Violence in the Filone 98 4. Narrative versus Excess in the Filone 129 5. Violence, Attractions and the Filone Viewer 188 6. “Sonic Spectacle” and Mismatching 231 Conclusion 266 Appendix A: Core Corpus of Study 277 Appendix B: Filoni Examined for Study 280 Filmography 288 Bibliography 297 3 Figures 1.4.1 Italian, French and American Peplum Posters