Giallo. An Aesthetic Innovation In Cinema (original) (raw)

2019, In a Stranger Field. Studies of Art, Audiovisuals and New Technologies in Fantasy, SciFi and Horror Genres

From classic horror films to aestheticization in the digital age We live in an era in which any artistic manifestation receives aesthetic and conceptual influences from other fields, or from its past «I». Transversality, revision and homage have come to stay, and cinema is no stranger to this reality. While it is true that the new digital technologies allow us to revisit previous places, themes and aesthetics, but with a different result-due to the change of the means and tools used-, in the end, when we are in front of the screen, we recognize the heritage of those who, for more than a century, have contributed to creating the art of cinema. This thematic line has infinite ways or ramifications to deal with, but in this case we will address the influence, in current audiovisual productions-including in fantasy and horror films-of the aesthetic and expressive contributions around the cinematography that the Giallo introduced in his film contributions. It will be taken for this, as a notable example for the analysis, the work of Darío Argento and that of Mario Bava and other creators of this subgenre. In the same way, the work in the photography and art direction of these films and, in particular, the cinematographer Luciano Tovoli in the film Suspiria (1977) will be examined.