Why bad things happen to bad people
Investigating evil in the Italian giallo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22169474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louis Bayman (0000-0002-4780-2057, University of Southampton, corresponding author), Louis David Bayman (University of Southampton) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Open Screens (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2516-2888 • E-ISSN: 2516-2888 |
| Publisher | Open Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.16995/os.8010 |
| OpenAlex | W4282826255 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This essay explores the idea of evil through its relationship to ideas of justice and representations of suffering. It does so to consider the particularity of the giallo genre both in relation to the wider detective and horror genres of which it is a hybrid, and to the development of Italian cinema in the post-war decades. In its delirious depictions of a hellish modernity the giallo overturns faith both in Catholic tradition and in reason. By rejecting a moral standpoint the giallo represents a historic turning point in Italian popular culture. While maintaining the imagery and symbolic reference points of a Catholic sensibility, gialli discard all interest in moral improvement to indulge instead their one primary purpose, enjoyment
Aesthetics · Art · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Faith · Literature · Modernity · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Sensibility · Sociology · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |