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      Alexia Kannas
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      Faith Everard
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Author Alexia Kannas

Alexia Kannas

Alexia Kannas lectures in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is the author of Deep Red (Columbia University Press/Wallflower, forthcoming 2017) and is currently completing a monograph on the Italian giallo film for SUNY Press.

Branded to Kill

Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967)

Alexia Kannas
March 2017
Love Letters: 1967
Existential Dread and the Smell of Boiling Rice: A Love Letter to Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967) Hanada Goro (Shishido Joe), Tokyo’s “No. 3 assassin”, walks into a bar; his wife orders a double black la...

No Place Like Home: The Late-Modern World of the Italian giallo Film

Alexia Kannas
July 2013
Uncategorized
In the final shot of Dario Argento’s Profondo Rosso (Deep Red, 1975), the amateur detective/jazz pianist Marcus Daly (David Hemmings) stares icily at his own reflection in a pool of still-warm blood. The killer...
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Simple Acts of Annihilation: La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven

Alexia Kannas
August 2007
Book Reviews
What is an Italian giallo film? Mikel J. Koven’s latest book La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film attempts to illuminate this under-appreciated cultural phenomenon and is in fact the fi...

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