Giallo

Giallo is an Italian 20th century genre of literature and film. It is closely related to the French fantastique genre, crime fiction, horror fiction and eroticism.

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The Italian term giallo (which literally translates as "yellow", see ) was originally coined to describe a series of mystery/crime pulp novels first published by the Mondadori publishing house in 1929, which continued to be published until the 1960s. Their yellow covers contained whodunits, much like their American counterparts of the 1920s and 1930s, and this link with English language pulp fiction was reinforced with the Italian authors always taking on English pen names. Many of the earliest gialli were in fact English-language novels translated into Italian. Published as cheap paperbacks, the success of the giallo novels soon began attracting the attention of other publishing houses, who began releasing their own versions (not forgetting to keep the by-now traditional yellow cover). The novels were so popular that even the works of established foreign mystery and crime writers, such as Agatha Christie and Georges Simenon, were labelled gialli when first published in Italy.

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Giallo related Images and Photos (experimental)

Palazzo Giallo

Tulipano Giallo