I would like to complete what Todd Mason explained about
giallo novels. In fact I do not know much about the films
discussed as a category in that thread, but I can confirm
about Italian giallo as books: the name "giallo" is a generic
name to designate in Italy the detective and crime novels. It
came indeed from the yellow color of the covers of a famous
local imprint having also Gialli Mandador as name (Mandadori
being one of the major Italian publishers; gialli= yellows)
and specialized in this lit. long ago (1929). So, in Italy,
the word giallio** tends to cover any kind of crime novel. In
France it will be "roman policier" that became "polar⦱uot;
during the seventies In Germany they are known as krimis**
For the Dutch: misdaad roman⮠etc
(**)indicating names created by the colloquial language
My two yellow coins--
E.Borgers POLAR NOIR http://www.geocities.com/polarnoir
--- En date Mer 28.5.08, foxbrick In rara-avis-l@
yahoogroups. com, "William" <smilliam.wiff@
...> wrote:
>
> The blog
>
> http://groovyageofh
orror.blogspot. com/
>
> does a lot of fumetti scans.
Yes, a Finn going by Jaako runs a few panels of the lunatic
Italian comix (the drawn kind, rather than the photos with
dialog balloons that were the first to have the "fumetti" tag
in America) and describes the stories in English. It's a Very
Cosmopolitan experience.
> Also (though I'm not sure which titles) I understand
that some of
> Edgar Wallace's "Krimmis" were an influence on the
filmed giallo.
Yes, the krimis, films based on Wallace's often lunatic
novels, were influential on giallo films, even as Wallace's
novels were influential on the Italian novels published in
yello (giallo) jackets that lent their collective name to the
films.
Contrast the Serie Noire and our favorite films onlinst, and
so on...
Todd Mason
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