“Rosso sangue”: Italian cinema of the seventies in the turmoil of the lead years
During the 1970s, Italy was shaken by bloody events. This captivating book by critic Jean-François Rauger examines the echoes reverberating in the cinema of the time, which had never been more political.
The book, entitled ‘Rosso sangue,’ delves into the tumultuous years of 1970s Italy, a decade marked by political violence and societal unrest. It meticulously analyzes how Italian cinema, spanning from highbrow to commercial, across genres like crime to gothic horror to westerns, became inherently political. Each chapter opens with a bloody news headline that tainted these ‘years of plumb’: the bombing of Piazza Fontana in Milan, the attempted coup by Junio Valerio Borghese, the assassination of Aldo Moro.
The author, the director of programming at the Cinémathèque française and a critic at Le Monde, provides in-depth insight and a historical overview of this chaotic period.
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