Blood in the Streets: Histories of Violence in Italian Crime Cinema

• By Austin Fisher

Blood in the Streets' investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political contexts.

• Release date: March 31, 2019 (Hardcover), November 30, 2020 (Paperback)
• ISBN: 147441172X (HC), 1474477720
• Pages: 240
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Language: English
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Synopsis

A historical contextualisation of 1970s Italian genre films that depicted violent crime in contemporary Italy. Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political contexts. The book analyses the emergence, proliferation and distribution of a range of popular film cycles (or filoni) – from conspiracy thrillers and vigilante films, to mafia and serial killer narratives – and examines what these reveal about their time and place. (Edinburgh University Press)