Blood in the Streets

A historical contextualisation of 1970s Italian genre films that depicted violent crime in contemporary Italy Winner of the BAFTSS Best Monograph Award 2020! Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political contexts. The book analyses the emergence, proliferation and distribution of a range of popular film cycles (or filoni) – from conspiracy thrillers and vigilante films, to mafia and serial killer narr