Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is the first edited collection engaging with close readings of the popular film cycle known as “giallo,” including both, classic films and directors and contemporary reimagining. The <italic>giallo</italic> (“yellow”) film cycle, characterized by its bloody murders and blending of high art and cinematic sleaze, rose to prominence in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning with Mario Bava’s <italic>The Girl Who Knew Too Much</italic> (1963) and Dario Argento’s <italic>The Bird with the Crystal Plumage</italic> (1970), <italic>giallo</italic> films influenced the American slasher films of the 1980s and attracted an increasingly large fandom. Despite <italic>gialli</italic>’s worldwide popularity, serious examination of the cycle has only recently begun. In <italic>Bloodstained Narratives: The Giallo Film in National Context and Abroad</italic>, contributors explore understudied aspects of <italic>gialli</italic>. The chapters introduce readers to a wide range of films, including masterpieces from Argento and overlooked gems, all of them examined in close detail. Rather than understanding <italic>giallo</italic> as focalized exclusively in Italy in the 1970s, this collection explores the extension of <italic>gialli</italic> narratives abroad through different geographies and times. This book examines Italian <italic>gialli</italic> of the 1970s but also American neo-<italic>gialli</italic>, French productions, Canadian horror films of the 1980s, and Asian rewritings of this “yellow” cycle of crime/horror films. <italic>Bloodstained Narratives</italic> also features interviews with two <italic>giallo</italic> film directors, including cult favorite Antonio Bido. Rather than fading from the cinematic stage, <italic>gialli</italic> serves as a precursor and steady accomplice to horror-thriller films through the twenty-first-century.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".