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Greenwich Academic Literature Archive CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Greenwich Academic Literature Archive Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (GALA) – the University of Greenwich open access repository http://gala.gre.ac.uk __________________________________________________________________________________________ Citation: Balmain, Colette Jane (2004) Genre, gender, giallo: the disturbed dreams of Dario Argento. PhD thesis, University of Greenwich. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Please note that the full text version provided on GALA is the final published version awarded by the university. “I certify that this work has not been accepted in substance for any degree, and is not concurrently being submitted for any degree other than that of (name of research degree) being studied at the University of Greenwich. I also declare that this work is the result of my own investigations except where otherwise identified by references and that I have not plagiarised the work of others”. Balmain, Colette Jane (2004) Genre, gender, giallo: the disturbed dreams of Dario Argento . ##thesis _type## , ##institution## Available at: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/5795/ __________________________________________________________________________________________ Contact: [email protected] GENRE, GENDER, GIALLO: THE DISTURBED DREAMS OF DARIO ARGENTO COLETTE JANE BALMAIN A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Greenwich For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy JANUARY 2004 DECLARATION This thesis is the result of the independent work of Colette Jane Balmain. All other work reported in the text has been attributed to the original authors and is fully referenced in the text, and list in the Reference section. Signed: Date: .... .fc. .... .^sr\O <^rutt ...... QtQ .Q. -11 - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis is dedicated to my parents, David Balmain, and Peggy Balmain, and my sister, Louise Balmain, without whose emotional and financial support and belief in me, it would not have been possible. I am extremely grateful to a wide number of people who have supported, encouraged and enabled me to produce this work. My special thanks go to my supervisor, Carolyn Brown, for her time and effort and unstinting encouragement during the process of writing. I also thank my ex-colleagues at Greenwich University who all contributed in some way to the intellectual space of this thesis - in particular: David Pattie; John Williams; Denise Leggett; Peter Humm; Susan Rowlands and Ann Cormack. I am also particularly grateful to Ann Battison and Mavis James for helping me negotiate the administrative backdrop to the final production of this thesis. My colleagues at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College have also played a part in enabling me to complete - Ruth Gunstone; Lois Drawmer; Alison Tedman; John Mercer and Andy Butler in particular. Also thanks to Lorna Scott for her help with proofreading and printing. Finally special thanks must go to my examiners: Professor Sue Golding (Greenwich University); Dr Simon O'Sullivan (Goldsmith's College, University of London) and Dr Jenny Bavidge (University of Greenwich). Dr Colette Balmain January 2004 - in - ABSTRACT This thesis presents an examination of the giallo films of Dario Argento from his directorial debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) to The Stendhal Syndrome (1996). In opposition to the dominant psychoanalytical approaches to the horror film generally and Argento's giallo specifically, this thesis argues that the giallo, both textually and meta-textually, actively resists oedipalisation. Taking up from Deleuze's contention in Cinema I: The Movement Image that the cinematic-image can be consider the equivalent to a philosophical concept, I suggest that Argento's giallo are examples of what Deleuze calls cinema of the "time-image": provoked and extended "philosophical" acts of imagining the world which opens up a theoretical space of thinking differently about questions of gender and genre in horror film, which takes us beyond the fixed images of thought offered by traditional psychoanalytical and feminist paradigms of horror. In the opening chapters of this thesis, I argue that the cinematic-image has to be thought "historically", and that it is only be understanding the emergence of the "giallo'" in the 1960s within the wider picture of Italian national cinema, that we can understand Argento's films as specific cultural expressions of thought, which are not reducible to paradigms based upon analyses of the more puritan and fixed American horror film (via Mulvey et all). In my subsequent discussion of Argento's "Diva" trilogy, I consider an assemblage of Deleuzian becoming and poststructuralist feminist thought (Kristeva / Cixous / Irigaray) as a mechanism through which to explore the increasingly feminised and feminist spaces of his later work. This thesis concludes by assessing Argento's critical and creative legacy in films such as Toshiharu Ikeda's Evil Dead Trap (1988) and Cindy Sherman's Office Killer (1997). In these terms, a Deleuzian "approach", enables a set of readings, which open up the texts to a more productive consideration of their appeal, in a way which other more traditional approaches do not, and cannot, account for. The close textual and historical analysis demanded by Deleuze is both a reconsideration of the [feminist] politics of Argento's work, and a response to criticisms of misogynism. - iv - CONTENTS Page Declaration ii Acknowledgements "' Abstract iv Contents v Illustrations vi Introduction Argento: Philosopher / Practitioner 1 Chapter 1: Italian Film History: iconography, aesthetics and politics 26 Chapter 2: Giallo: Bava's The Evil Eye and Blood and Black Lace 61 Chapter 3: The Difficulty of Detection: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 102 Chapter 4: Sight and Sound: The Components of the Image: The Cat O'Nine 134 Tails Chapter 5 The powers of the false: Four Flies on Grey Velvet 167 Chapter 6 The crisis in the truth: Deep Red 189 Chapter 7 The end of his-story: Tenebrae 218 Chapter 8 Coldness and Cruelty: Opera 250 Chapter 9 Abjection and Anorexia: Trauma 274 Chapter 10 The Laugh of the Medusa: The Stendhal Syndrome 301 Conclusion Argento's legacy 322 Bibliography 334 Filmography 349 - v - ILLUSTRATIONS Figure Title Page Figure 1 Woman as Corpse in Suspiria 2 Figure 2 Dario Argento: Philosopher / Practitioner 7 Figure 3 Abject terror personified: Sally in The Texas Chain Saw 15 Massacre Figure 4 Theatrical constructions of space in Rome, Open City 37 Figure 5 "All the world's a stage": horror as theatre in Michele Soavi's 38 Stagefright Figure 6 "Pulp Fiction": The most recent video cover for Visconti's 46 Obsession Figure 7 Opening sequences of Obsession 48 Figure 8. Desire outside the binary: Lo Spagnalo and Gino in Obsession 52 Figure 9 Giovanna as "la dolente" in Obsession 57 Figure 10 A picture of "suffering": Giovanna and Gino in Obsession 69 Figure 11 The torture of Manfredi: piestic imagery in Rome, Open City 83 Figure 12 Nora as "the final girl" in The Evil Eye 97 Figure 13 The female body as commodity in Blood and Black Lace 99 Figure 14 The "Blank Mask" of terror in Blood and Black Lace 109 Figure 15 The "caging" of the "colonial other" in Bird with the Crystal 129 Plumage Figure 16 Monica as Lady Macbeth in The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 129 Figure 17 Sight and Sound in The Cat O 'Nine Tails 158 Figure 18 The deconstruction of faciality in Four Flies on Grey Velvet 169 Figure 19 Murder as performance in Four Flies on Grey Velvet 172 Figure 20 Gender transgression in Four Flies on Grey Velvet 179 Figure 21 The death of the "Jew" in Deep Red 200 - vi -.
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