Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento

Italian filmmaker Dario Argento’s horror films have been described as a blend of Alfred Hitchcock and George Romero—psychologically rich, colorful, and at times garish, excelling at taking the best elements of the splatter and exploitation genres and laying them over a dark undercurrent of human emotions and psyches. Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds, which dissects such Argento cult films as Two Evil Eyes, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Suspiria, and Deep Red, includes a new introduction discussing Argento’s most recent films, from The Stendahl Syndrome to Mother of Tears; an updated filmography; and an interview with Argento.
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Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento

Italian filmmaker Dario Argento’s horror films have been described as a blend of Alfred Hitchcock and George Romero—psychologically rich, colorful, and at times garish, excelling at taking the best elements of the splatter and exploitation genres and laying them over a dark undercurrent of human emotions and psyches. Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds, which dissects such Argento cult films as Two Evil Eyes, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Suspiria, and Deep Red, includes a new introduction discussing Argento’s most recent films, from The Stendahl Syndrome to Mother of Tears; an updated filmography; and an interview with Argento.
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Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento

Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento

by Maitland McDonagh
Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento

Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento

by Maitland McDonagh

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Italian filmmaker Dario Argento’s horror films have been described as a blend of Alfred Hitchcock and George Romero—psychologically rich, colorful, and at times garish, excelling at taking the best elements of the splatter and exploitation genres and laying them over a dark undercurrent of human emotions and psyches. Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds, which dissects such Argento cult films as Two Evil Eyes, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Suspiria, and Deep Red, includes a new introduction discussing Argento’s most recent films, from The Stendahl Syndrome to Mother of Tears; an updated filmography; and an interview with Argento.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781452915371
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 03/22/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
File size: 8 MB

About the Author


Maitland McDonagh is a film critic and TV commentator who maintains her own Web site, MissFlickChick.com. She was the senior movies editor of TVGuide.com from 1995 to 2008.

Table of Contents


Introduction. Heart of Darkness: Twenty-first Century Nightmares, An Introduction to the Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Cat O’Nine Tails and Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Le cinque giornate and Deep Red, Suspiria and Inferno, Tenebrae and Creepers, Opera and Two Evil Eyes, Epilogue, Afterword: Trauma and the Changing Face of Horror, An Interview with Dario Argento (circa 1985), Acknowledgments, The Films of Dario Argento, Select Bibliography
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