Blood and black lace /

Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace (1964) is a legendary title, and is commonly considered as the archetypal giallo. A murder mystery about a faceless and menacing killer stalking the premises of a luxurious fashion house in Rome, Blood and Black Lace set the rules for the genre: a masked, black...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Curti, Roberto, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leighton Buzzard : Auteur, 2019.
Series:Devil's advocates.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue (and epilogue)
  • Bava goes fashion
  • Under the sign of the giallo
  • Something to do with women, something to do with death
  • On murder considered as one of the fine arts
  • A world of mannequins
  • Dressed to kill
  • A matter of style
  • The evil eye
  • The rules of the game
  • From the page to the screen
  • A celibate founder
  • The red telephone.