Now online! Special issue of Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies

This month sees the publication of mine and Austin Fisher's special issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies -- now in its fifth year -- on 'Italian horror'.

To access the journal, click here. For a full table of contents, see below. 

• Introduction: Italian horror cinema / Austin Fisher and Johnny Walker 
• ‘I have a picture of the Monster!’: Il mostro di Frankenstein and the search for Italian horror cinema / Russ Hunter 
• All the colours of the dark: Film genre and the Italian giallo / Alexia Kannas 
• A comparative analysis of the factors driving film cycles: Italian and American zombie film production, 1978–82 / Todd K. Platts 
• ‘Why are there always three?’: The Gothic occult in Dario Argento’s Three Mothers Trilogy / Lindsay Hallam 
• The cultural capital of the gothic horror adaptation: The case of Dario Argento’s The Phantom of the Opera and Dracula 3D / Xavier Aldana Reyes 
• Streaming Italian horror cinema in the United Kingdom: Lovefilm Instant / Stefano Baschiera 
• An interview with Sergio Martino: An American in Rome / Giulio Olesen 
• Spaghetti Cinema, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK, 9–10 May 2014 / Neil Fox 
• The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh and the Giallo: An International Film Conference, Rome, 7–9 June 2015 / Louis Bayman