There can be a tendency when writing about genre cinema to pretend that you have an equal amount of knowledge and expertise in all areas. I’m as guilty of this as anyone, as while I feel like I have a pretty decent handle on this no-budget thing, and can write fairly coherently about a wide swath of genres — from Italian cannibal movies to Italian post apocalyptic movies to Italian gialli (Viva l’Italia!) — there are still significant gaps in my film education. One of my very biggest blind spots involves Poliziotteschi; the Italian crime and action films that flourished after the
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