Austin Fisher is Associate Professor of Popular Culture at Bournemouth University. He is the author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western, editor of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads and Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond, and founding co-editor of the ‘Global Exploitation Cinemas’ book series. His main area of expertise concerns popular Italian cinema’s relationship with political movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Italian Crime Films and the Years of Lead2 Corruption and Conspiracy in the Poliziottesco and the Vigilante Filone3 Nostalgic Gangsters and the Mafia Filone4 Serial Killing and the Giallo5 Enter … If You Dare! The Cross-Cultural Reception of Crime FiloniConclusionBibliography Endnotes

The filone is the subject; film convention, cycles and series the method; and government corruption, crime syndicates, policing, murder mysteries, street riots and political violence is the topic of enquiry. Adroitly pulling these strands together, Austin Fisher has produced one of the finest histories of post-war Italian popular cinema.

Austin Fisher is Associate Professor of Popular Culture at Bournemouth University. He is the author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western, editor of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads and Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond, and founding co-editor of the ‘Global Exploitation Cinemas’ book series. His main area of expertise concerns popular Italian cinema’s relationship with political movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Italian Crime Films and the Years of Lead2 Corruption and Conspiracy in the Poliziottesco and the Vigilante Filone3 Nostalgic Gangsters and the Mafia Filone4 Serial Killing and the Giallo5 Enter … If You Dare! The Cross-Cultural Reception of Crime FiloniConclusionBibliography Endnotes

The filone is the subject; film convention, cycles and series the method; and government corruption, crime syndicates, policing, murder mysteries, street riots and political violence is the topic of enquiry. Adroitly pulling these strands together, Austin Fisher has produced one of the finest histories of post-war Italian popular cinema.

Austin Fisher is Associate Professor of Popular Culture at Bournemouth University. He is the author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western, editor of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads and Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond, and founding co-editor of the ‘Global Exploitation Cinemas’ book series. His main area of expertise concerns popular Italian cinema’s relationship with political movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Italian Crime Films and the Years of Lead2 Corruption and Conspiracy in the Poliziottesco and the Vigilante Filone3 Nostalgic Gangsters and the Mafia Filone4 Serial Killing and the Giallo5 Enter … If You Dare! The Cross-Cultural Reception of Crime FiloniConclusionBibliography Endnotes

The filone is the subject; film convention, cycles and series the method; and government corruption, crime syndicates, policing, murder mysteries, street riots and political violence is the topic of enquiry. Adroitly pulling these strands together, Austin Fisher has produced one of the finest histories of post-war Italian popular cinema.