The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh and the Giallo: an International Film Conference

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Discussion published by Andreas Ehrenreich on Sunday, May 10, 2015

Rome, June 7–9, 2015 http://blogs.shu.ac.uk/giallo

Venue: Istituto Storico Austriaco, viale Bruno Buozzi 111–113, 00197 Roma Hosted by the Austrian Historical Institute and Sheffield Hallam University’s Department of Humanities in cooperation with Cineteca Nazionale

The giallo is a cinema of leather gloves and razors, of inappropriate pathos, which dignifies murder as an artistic act. It is a guilty pleasure whose concise mannerism represents a unique phenomenon within the history of European film. Mario Bava who conceived the formula with The Evil Eye (1963) provided its first masterpiece withBlood and Black Lace (1964) to inspire very heterogeneous successors. Dario Argento, Massimo Dallamano, Luciano Ercoli, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi and, especially, Sergio Martino are the most influential but only a few of all the directors producing perhaps more than 200 gialli in the 1970s. Through the DVD boom, a new generation of cinephiles has gained access to the popular film cycle, which has been enthusiastically embraced. The conference’s aim is to explore the genre beyond Bava’s and Argento’s well-studied contributions to gain more profound insights into the various manifestations of this particular film cycle.

Professor Richard Dyer (King’s College London) is our distinguished keynote speaker. On June 7, the Cinema Trevi will show three films by Sergio Martino. Before the screening of The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, the film’s cast and crew, comprising screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi, leading actor George Hilton, director Sergio Martino and composer Nora Orlandi, will discuss their work. On June 8, director Federica Martino will present her new feature film project Girl Hunt. On June 9, a second panel discussion with composerStelvio Cipriani, directors Luigi Cozzi and Romolo Guerrieri and actress Dagmar Lassander will take place at the Austrian Historical Institute.

All are welcome. Attendance is free.

Programme

Sunday, 7 June 2015 Venue: Cinema Trevi, vicolo del Puttarello 25, 00187 Roma

17.00 Screening

The Suspicious Death of a Minor (Morte sospetta di una minorenne, directed by Sergio Martino, IT 1975), 35 mm, Italian

19.00 Screening

Citation: Andreas Ehrenreich. The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh and the Giallo: an International Film Conference. H-Film. 05-10-2015. https://networks.h-net.org/node/14467/discussions/69439/strange-vice-mrs-wardh-and-giallo-international-film-conference Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Film

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave, directed by Sergio Martino, IT 1972), 35 mm, Italian

20.45 Panel discussion and screening

Hosted by Emiliano Morreale with Andreas Ehrenreich, Ernesto Gastaldi, George Hilton, Sergio Martino and Nora Orlandi, translated by Marlene Peinhopf

The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh, directed by Sergio Martino, IT/ES 1971), 35 mm, German with English and Italian subtitles

Monday, 8 June 2015 Venue: Istituto Storico Austriaco, viale Bruno Buozzi 111–113, 00197 Roma

10.00–12.00 Welcome and Panel 1

Massimiliano Gaudiosi: Postcards and labyrinths: urban space in the giallo

Louis Bayman: Why bad things happen to bad people: investigating evil in the giallo

Florian Mundhenke: La polizia ha le mani legate: genre hybridity of gialli and poliziotteschi

12.15–14.00 Panel 2

Ivo Ritzer: Beyond Kilimanjaro: the cosmopolitan cinema of Sergio Martino

Xavier Mendik: “Family ties are the ties that bind”: rural Italian horror from the mezzogiorno giallo to Girl Hunt. With a statement by Federica Martino

Janet Robinson: Pedagogical Concerns of Popular Genre Film Cycles

15.00–16.45 Panel 3

Adrian Smith: Blood baths and bloody brides: distributing the giallo in 1960s Britain

Russ Hunter: “Very mediocre …but very successful”: the Italian critical reception of Dario Argento’s gialli

Oliver Carter: Preserving all’italiana: fan preservation of giallo cinema

17.00–18.00 Panel 4

Mauro Giori: The strange vice of the Italian giallo: the exploitation of homosexuality fromI tre volti della paura to Tenebre

John Mercer: Gay trash cinema: hell bent giallo and bad taste

18.15 Keynote

Richard Dyer: Anything, and more, for the family: the set piece in the giallo

Tuesday, 9 June 2015 Venue: Istituto Storico Austriaco, Viale Bruno Buozzi 111–113, 00197 Roma

10.15–12.00 Panel 5

Leon Hunt: (Nearly) naked… you die: Bava, bunker, and the 1960s gialloas cinefumetto nero

Paolo Noto: The critical reception of the giallo in the Italian journals of the 1970s

Stefano Baschiera: Giallo on demand

12.15–14.00 Panel 6

Giovanni Memola: Modern troubles: giallo women and the influence of family changes in post-war Italy

Sarah Reininghaus: “The worst part of you is the best thing you have and will always be mine”: women, sexuality and gender roles in Sergio Martino’s The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh

Mikel J. Koven: Signora Wardh and the hysterical giallo

15.00–16.45 Panel 7

Marcus Stiglegger: Lethal rituals of seduction: the giallo cycle in the light of the seduction-theory of film

Christine Lötscher: Beyond hermeneutics: effects of presence in the giallo

Peter Scheinpflug: In the Folds of the Flesh: psychoanalysis as royal road to a deconstruction of the giallo

17.00 Panel discussion

With Stelvio Cipriani, Luigi Cozzi, Romolo Guerrieri and Dagmar Lassander, translated by Marlene Peinhopf http://blogs.shu.ac.uk/giallo

Best regards, Andreas Ehrenreich PhD candidate Sheffield Hallam

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