Bloodstained Narratives

Matthew Edwards is an independent film scholar and primary school teacher from Cirencester, England. He is author or editor of many books on cult/horror cinema, including The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema; Klaus Kinski, Beast of Cinema; Twisted Visions: Interviews with Horror Filmmakers; and Murder Movie Makers: Directors Discuss Their Killer Flicks. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires-Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, where he teaches courses on international horror film. He is director of the research group on horror cinema, Grite, authored a book about the Spanish horror TV series Historias para no dormir, and edited a book on director James Wan.

The library on the giallo film has yet another worthwhile addition.--Barry Forshaw "Crime Time (UK)" Very, very interesting stuff-- "Giallo Ciao! Ciao! podcast" Included are deep dives into specific titles, an analysis of the genre's roots in postwar Italy, and giallo's influence on directors outside of Italy, from Canada to China. Written for an audience both knowledgeable in cult films and fluent in film theory, this title meets a niche need.--Terry Busky "Library Journal" With Bloodstained Narratives, we get a useful update on neo-giallo with a transnational view and almost a manual for experiencing a new generation of genre pieces from various countries worth exploring.--A. Ebert "PopCultureShelf.com" The sharp, passionate writing in Bloodstained Narratives highlights the genre's connections to current cinema and shows the debt many writer-directors owe to the blood-drenched masterpieces of Italy.--Christopher Schobert "The Film Stage" Edwards and Pagnoni Berns apply their critical tools to a genre that has been dissected innumerable times and yet manage to draw fresh blood from it. Bloodstained Narratives teems with ideas, speculations, and thought-provoking analyses on both well-known and obscure titles. It adds much-welcome new perspectives that no one had touched before and proves that the giallo is a field well worth investigating.--Roberto Curti, film historian and author of several books on Italian genre cinema Bloodstained Narratives wonderfully embodies the range of responses to and readings of the giallo, showing that much of the discourse rarely meets any comprehensive consensus, which is a particular advantage of this collection.--Wickham Clayton, author of SEE! HEAR! CUT! KILL! Experiencing "Friday the 13th" and editor of Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film