[ecrea] The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh and the Giallo: an International Film Conference

*/The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh /*and the Giallo: an International Film 
Conference

Rome, June 7–9, 2015

http://blogs.shu.ac.uk/giallo

Venue: Istituto Storico Austriaco, viale Bruno Buozzi 111–113, 00197 Roma

Hosted by the Austrian Historical Institute and Sheffield Hallam
University’s Department of Humanities in cooperation with Cineteca Nazionale

The giallo is a cinema of leather gloves and razors, of inappropriate
pathos, which dignifies murder as an artistic act. It is a guilty
pleasure whose concise mannerism represents a unique phenomenon within
the history of European film. Mario Bava who conceived the formula with
/The Evil Eye /(1963) provided its first masterpiece with /Blood and
Black Lace/ (1964) to inspire very heterogeneous successors. Dario
Argento, Massimo Dallamano, Luciano Ercoli, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi
and, especially, Sergio Martino are the most influential but only a few
of all the directors producing perhaps more than 200 gialli in the
1970s. Through the DVD boom, a new generation of cinephiles has gained
access to the popular film cycle, which has been enthusiastically
embraced. The conference’s aim is to explore the genre beyond Bava’s and
Argento’s well-studied contributions to gain more profound insights into
the various manifestations of this particular film cycle.

*Professor Richard Dyer*(King’s College London) is our distinguished
keynote speaker. On June 7, the Cinema Trevi will show three films by
Sergio Martino. Before the screening of /The Strange Vice of Mrs.
Wardh/, the film’s cast and crew, comprising screenwriter *Ernesto
Gastaldi*, leading actor *George Hilton*, director *Sergio Martino* and
composer *Nora Orlandi*, will discuss their work. On June 8, director
*Federica Martino *will present her new feature film project /Girl Hunt.
/On June 9, a second panel discussion with composer *Stelvio Cipriani*,
directors *Luigi Cozzi* and *Romolo Guerrieri* and actress *Dagmar
Lassander* will take place at the Austrian Historical Institute.

All are welcome. Attendance is free.



*Programme*

_Sunday, 7 June 2015_

Venue: Cinema Trevi, vicolo del Puttarello 25, 00187 Roma

17.00*Screening*

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/The Suspicious Death of a Minor /(/Morte sospetta di una minorenne/,
directed by Sergio Martino, IT 1975), 35 mm, Italian

19.00*Screening*

//

/Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key /(/Il tuo vizio è
una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave/, directed by Sergio
Martino, IT 1972), 35 mm, Italian

20.45*Panel discussion and screening*

Hosted by Emiliano Morreale with Andreas Ehrenreich, Ernesto Gastaldi,
George Hilton, Sergio Martino and Nora Orlandi, translated by Marlene
Peinhopf



/The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh /(/Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh/,
directed by Sergio Martino, IT/ES 1971), 35 mm, German with English and
Italian subtitles

_Monday, 8 June 2015_

Venue: Istituto Storico Austriaco, viale Bruno Buozzi 111–113, 00197 Roma

10.00–12.00*Welcome and Panel 1 *

Massimiliano Gaudiosi: Postcards and labyrinths: urban space in the giallo

Louis Bayman: Why bad things happen to bad people: investigating evil in
the giallo

Florian Mundhenke: /La polizia ha le mani legate/: genre hybridity of
gialli and poliziotteschi

12.15–14.00*Panel 2*

Ivo Ritzer: Beyond Kilimanjaro: the cosmopolitan cinema of Sergio Martino

Xavier Mendik: “Family ties are the ties that bind”: rural Italian
horror from the mezzogiorno giallo to /Girl Hunt/. With a statement by
Federica Martino

Janet Robinson: Pedagogical Concerns of Popular Genre Film Cycles

15.00–16.45*Panel 3*

Adrian Smith: Blood baths and bloody brides: distributing the giallo in
1960s Britain

Russ Hunter: “Very mediocre …but very successful”: the Italian critical
reception of Dario Argento’s gialli

Oliver Carter: Preserving all’italiana: fan preservation of giallo cinema

17.00–18.00*Panel 4*

Mauro Giori: The strange vice of the Italian giallo: the exploitation of
homosexuality from /I tre volti della paura/ to /Tenebre/

John Mercer: Gay trash cinema: hell bent giallo and bad taste

18.15*Keynote*

Richard Dyer: Anything, and more, for the family: the set piece in the
giallo

_Tuesday, 9 June 2015_

Venue: Istituto Storico Austriaco, Viale Bruno Buozzi 111–113, 00197 Roma

10.15–12.00*Panel 5*

Leon Hunt: (Nearly) naked… you die: Bava, bunker, and the 1960s gialloas
/cinefumetto nero/

Paolo Noto: The critical reception of the giallo in the Italian journals
of the 1970s

Stefano Baschiera: Giallo on demand

12.15–14.00*Panel 6*

Giovanni Memola: Modern troubles: giallo women and the influence of
family changes in post-war Italy

Sarah Reininghaus: “The worst part of you is the best thing you have and
will always be mine”: women, sexuality and gender roles in Sergio
Martino’s /The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh/

Mikel J. Koven: /Signora Wardh/ and the hysterical giallo

15.00–16.45*Panel 7*

Marcus Stiglegger: Lethal rituals of seduction: the giallo cycle in the
light of the seduction-theory of film

Christine Lötscher: Beyond hermeneutics: effects of presence in the giallo

Peter Scheinpflug: /In the Folds of the Flesh/: psychoanalysis as royal
road to a deconstruction of the giallo

17.00*Panel discussion*

With Stelvio Cipriani, Luigi Cozzi, Romolo Guerrieri and Dagmar
Lassander, translated by Marlene Peinhopf



http://blogs.shu.ac.uk/giallo







Best regards,

Andreas

Andreas Ehrenreich

PhD candidate

Sheffield Hallam University

(andreas.ehrenreich /at/ student.shu.ac.uk)
<mailto:(andreas.ehrenreich /at/ student.shu.ac.uk)>





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