7. Scrap metal, stains, clogged drains: Argento’s refuse and its refusals

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of figures vii
4. List of contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Preferisco l’inferno: early Italian horror cinema 15
8. 2. Domestic films made for export: modes of production of the 1960s Italian horror film 30
9. 3. The 1980s Italian horror cinema of imitation: the good, the ugly and the sequel 45
10. 4. Knowing the unknown beyond: ‘Italianate’ and ‘Italian’ horror cinema in the twenty-first century 62
11. 5. Bavaesque: the making of Mario Bava as Italian horror auteur 79
12. 6. The Argento Syndrome: aesthetics of horror 93
13. 7. Scrap metal, stains, clogged drains: Argento’s refuse and its refusals 111
14. 8. The giallo/slasher landscape: Ecologia del delitto, Friday the 13th and subtractive spectatorship 127
15. 9. Kings of terror, geniuses of crime: giallo cinema and fumetti neri 145
16. 10. Political memory in the Italian hinterland: locating the ‘rural giallo’ 160
17. 11. The horror of progressive rock: Goblin and horror soundtracks 175
18. 12. ‘The only monsters here are the filmmakers’: animal cruelty and death in Italian cannibal films 191
19. 13. Italian horror cinema and Italian film journals of the 1970s 207
20. Index 222