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Samm Deighan

Samm Deighan is a New York City–based film historian, author of The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema, editor of Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, and host of the Eros + Massacre podcast.

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The Italian Art of Violence

With their virtuosic celebrations of death, giallo films reflect the air of paranoia and fear that haunted Italian society in the 1960s and ’70s, a period when the country was undergoing dramatic, violent changes.

By Samm Deighan