Author Spotlight

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.

1 Results
The Italian Art of Violence
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

Features— Sep 20, 2024