Mario Bava: A desire for ambiguity
of Alberto Pezzotta
Publisher : The green tower ( March 8, 2018)
Language : French
Number of pages : 314 pages
"Long forgotten and decried but also adored, "Punisher", the first film based on the A renowned cinematographer, Mario Bava (1914-1980) made a name for himself in 1960 with his first film, The Mask of the Demon, which featured Barbara Steele. In twenty years and around thirty films, this director who was quickly classified as a "skilled craftsman of horror cinema" distinguished himself brilliantly, and not without a certain self-destructive humor, in fields as diverse as fantasy, western, peplum, comedy, science fiction, and giallo, a genre he created and which his son Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento would develop. His work inspires Federico Fellini, Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese or Tim Burton. With Bava, master of anxiety, peerless colorist, the scenario is often only a pretext for innovative formal research. Thanks to unpublished documents, the historian finally does justice to Bava, an author in his own right. Among his masterpieces: The Mask of the Demon, The Three Faces of Fear, Six Women for the Assassin and The Bloody Bay.
of Alberto Pezzotta
Publisher : The green tower ( March 8, 2018)
Language : French
Number of pages : 314 pages
"Long forgotten and decried but also adored, "Punisher", the first film based on the A renowned cinematographer, Mario Bava (1914-1980) made a name for himself in 1960 with his first film, The Mask of the Demon, which featured Barbara Steele. In twenty years and around thirty films, this director who was quickly classified as a "skilled craftsman of horror cinema" distinguished himself brilliantly, and not without a certain self-destructive humor, in fields as diverse as fantasy, western, peplum, comedy, science fiction, and giallo, a genre he created and which his son Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento would develop. His work inspires Federico Fellini, Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese or Tim Burton. With Bava, master of anxiety, peerless colorist, the scenario is often only a pretext for innovative formal research. Thanks to unpublished documents, the historian finally does justice to Bava, an author in his own right. Among his masterpieces: The Mask of the Demon, The Three Faces of Fear, Six Women for the Assassin and The Bloody Bay.