SPAGHETTI WESTERN vol. 1 - L'alba e il primo splendore
del genere (years 1963 - 1966)
Author: Matteo Mancini
Spaghetti Western is a project structured in three
volumes, which aims to present the genre as it has evolved over the years, from
the proto-Western fordiani Germi set in Italy, the Western pre-Leone epic of
American debtors, through Sergio Leone and gradually with the avengers of the
far west, the tortilla westerns, western comedies and then those bizarre last
efforts that mingled with the general antithetical elements borrowed from other
streams such as martial arts movies or horror, until the end of the 1980s
attempts to revitalize a now dead genre. So an important path, full of
quotations, anecdotes, opinions and advice for undertaking a comprehensive
analysis not only of the spaghetti western but of Italian cinema. One can
almost say that there has not been a director, screenwriter or famous movie
actor who has not passed on working in the Italian Western genre. Even
prisoners of their success as directors Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava,
Tinto Brass and Pier Paolo Pasolini made westerns. A genre that had given to
the public, in just over ten years, about four hundred films, laying the
groundwork for the creation of all other genres and even of the auteur,
financed by the income of these stellar movies. This first volume of the series
sheds light on the initial phase of the spaghetti westerns, from its dawn to
1966, analyzing, film after film, its slow evolution and that of its characters
with a more popular air than a critical analysis and with the intention to
encourage young readers to its rediscovery and especially to inject into them
the stimulation and curiosity about the world of Italian genre cinema, which
was outrageously confined by television and film production from some
hypocritical and bigoted critics and relegated it into a cultural corner and
categorizing it sadly as just a niche.
A greeting from the author
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